I see those statements as closely equivalent.
The GOP is a fascist party, and they will use their control of the electoral process to whatever degree is necessary to retain power. An election in which the result is decided by disenfranchisement, intimidation, voter suppression and gerrymandering is a fraudulent election.
That is how elections are stolen. You don’t need to falsify every vote, you just need to tilt the playing field sufficiently to swing the balance. In the USA, thanks to decentralised electoral administration and GOP dominance of state governments, that is very easy to do.
If you are planning on an electoral response to Trump, you need to have a solid plan for how you are going to overcome that increasingly extreme structural disadvantage. Winning the national PR contest is useless if the Black and Latino population of the Confederacy and the Midwest can’t vote in the required numbers.
But I’m happy to disengage. Feel free to ignore me.
