Trump has said that the United States shouldn’t have midterm elections this year because midterm voters often vote against the president’s party. Democratic congressional leaders have said they expect Trump to disrupt and dispute the midterms.

“It’s some deep psychological thing, but when you win the presidency, you don’t win the midterms,” Trump told Reuters in a recent interview. He then boasted that his presidency had accomplished so much that “when you think about it, we shouldn’t even have an election.”

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told the Associated Press that Democrats are concerned that Trump will try to prevent open and fair midterm elections.

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    Do it Trump … that would make Trump an active threat to the Consitution.

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      He has been for 5 years I don’t think he’s going to stop and nobody seems to be wanting to actually stop them One guy came close by 2 cm if you want to believe it wasn’t staged

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      And still nothing will happen. If the shit he’s already doing isn’t considered an active threat I’m not sure what else could. Maybe this would garner more attention from the general public, who knows. If it did that would be good but we are quickly approaching too little tol late.

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        He has been skirting legality for a while, but suspending elections will bring out the vigilantes and the whole party could get “bat manned”. IF those vigilantes get brought to court thier defense will be pretty solid.