Juan Williams: GOP preparing the ground to steal an election | TheHill

For refusing to buy into the lie, she lost her leadership post.Shunning honest Republicans is required to retain solidarity among the 147 congressional Republicans who agreed to the “Big Lie” by voting against certifying Biden’s win in 2020.The message to congressional Republicans is that they will be free to defy their constitutional oath again, and undermine the 2024 election without any consequences, if they just stick together.Any Republican looking to run for president is also being told to hold onto the “Big Lie.”Mike PenceMichael (Mike) Richard PenceHow to investigate Jan. 6 (and other politicized issues) without a commission On The Money: Democrats wary of emerging bipartisan infrastructure deal, warn of time crunch Pence buys .9M home in Indiana MORE, the former vice president, was threatened on Jan. 6 by insurrectionists chanting that they wanted to hang him.But he now downplays the threat, dismissing it by simply saying he and Trump will never “see eye-to-eye on that day.”Pence is living proof that any prominent Republican who even thinks of standing apart from Trump’s lies will be left in no-man’s land.This pressure for GOP politicians to choose silence in turn enables conservative media to continue to tell voters that the election was stolen, without fear of contradiction from within party ranks.They keep trumpeting the “Big Lie” despite the fact that election officials and more than 50 judges have failed to find evidence of fraud.