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Trump's 2024 strategy could echo the disputed US election of 1876

Trump's 2024 strategy could echo the disputed US election of 1876
Trump's 2024 Strategy Could Echo the Disputed US Election of 1876 | GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

For Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Clarence Page, new voting laws in some Republican-led states could help Donald Trump do in 2024 what he failed to do in 2020.

The changes, he says in a GZERO World interview, will make it easier for state legislatures to decide electoral college votes. That's exactly what Trump's people tried to do in the last presidential election.


It reminds Page of what happened in 1876, when the end of Reconstruction after the Civil War coincided with a disputed presidential election.

The outcome? Jim Crow.

"This is the legacy of, of those days," he says. "A that's part of the big argument now. Are we going to get rid of these last vestiges of discrimination from the Jim Crow era?"

Watch this episode of GZERO World with Ian Bremmer: Black voter suppression in 2022