Heather Cox Richardson 8/24/25
GINGRICH FLIPS HOUSE AND REPUBLICANS PURGE BLACK VOTES TO
STEAL 2000 ELECTION
In 1994, Gingrich flip the House of Representatives to the Republicans
for the first time since 1954, he set out to reshape the Republican
Party into an instrument for destroying the modern government...
destroying the Democratic Party by referring to its members as
“corrupt,” “intolerant,” “sick,” “traitors”; launching investigations —
without evidence—was “voter fraud,” & by investigating, impeaching
president Bill Clinton. By the end of the 1990s, ..Party trumped
country because they believed they were in a fight for the soul of
America....keeping Democrats out of power Republican began to talk
of purifying the voter rolls in the 1990s, in 1998 the Florida legislature
passed a law that purged from the system as many as 100,000 Black
voters presumed to be Democrats. This purge paid off in 2000, when
Al Gore won the popular vote by more than half a million votes but was
four votes short of a win in the Electoral College. The contest came
down to Florida, where a confusing ballot had siphoned about 10,000
votes intended for Gore off to far-right candidate Pat Buchanan.
A hand recount had reduced Rep candidate George W. Bush's
lead from 1,784 to 537 when Republican operatives attacked the
recount venue in Miami-Dade County to stop the recount, claiming
there was “voter fraud.” SCOTUS—Iled by five Republican-appointed
iustices—stepbped in to aive the victory to Bush.
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Heather Cox Richardson 8/24/25
GINGRICH FLIPS HOUSE AND REPUBLICANS PURGE BLACK VOTES TO STEAL 2000 ELECTION