I can only think of one person
The New Hampshire attorney general’s office says it is investigating what appears to be an “unlawful attempt” at voter suppression after NBC News reported on a robocall impersonating President Joe Biden telling recipients not to vote in Tuesday’s presidential primary.
“Although the voice in the robocall sounds like the voice of President Biden, this message appears to be artificially generated based on initial indications,” the attorney generals office said in a statement. “These messages appear to be an unlawful attempt to disrupt the New Hampshire Presidential Primary Election and to suppress New Hampshire voters. New Hampshire voters should disregard the content of this message entirely.”
The investigation comes after a prominent New Hampshire Democrat, whose personal cell phone number showed up on the caller ID of those receiving the call, filed a complaint.
“What a bunch of malarkey,” the robocall phone message begins, echoing a favorite term Biden has uttered before.
Nikki Haley’s campaign is unlikely to be the source of this little ratfuck since she’s the one most likely to benefit from Democrats who want to vote against Trump. So who does that leave?
In 2002 … a so-called phone-jamming effort was carried out during a hotly contested U.S. Senate race. Two Republican officials, including the executive director of the state Republican Party and a Republican National Committee operative, were convicted of using computer-generated phone calls to disrupt Democrats’ get-out-the-vote call center operations.
If only Democrats would stop cheating in elections, amirite?
In fact, the term ratfuck was first deployed in New Hampshire in 1972 by Richard Nixon’s henchmen who took out Senator Edmund Muskie in a famous act of campaign sabotage, The Canuck Letter.
It’s what they do.