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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    He already said before that if the Republicans lose the mid terms, and they would, they will, he would be jailed

    He’s right

    And he will be.

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      All of this is one big convoluted effort to stay out of jail while inflicting as much fear and pain as possible.

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      People vote for a well known rapist and then are surprised when their country gets fucked.

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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.

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    I’m sure trump is going to call for the mid-terms elections to be cancelled. We’ll still have them, but it will give cover for gerrymandered red-states to reduce their efforts to make voting available and visible to their citizen.

    If the elections go south for Republicans, I fully expect Mike Johnson to play games with allowing Democrats to be sworn in and seated in Congress. We really need to be preparing for both of these scenarios.

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      He will declare that Dems cheated everywhere they win, and if the House tries anything, he will declare they are traitors and declare state of emergency claiming absolute power (or whatever other made up shit).

      Time to count who sides with whom in the military…

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      it will give cover for gerrymandered red-states to reduce their efforts to make voting available and visible to their citizen.

      I think you’re absolutely right, as it draws near we will get a steadily increasing narrative how elections are rigged, there’s massive corruption in voting systems (the paper is chinese!) and many other distracting nonsense claims.

      But what they have overreached on over and over again is they are broadly very stupid people, and they can’t grasp the scale of this country and the people. I’m sure there will be election shenanigans but I doubt it will be enough to turn the tide. If they try to cancel any elections outright, while people are this tense and ready to riot, there will be widescale violence. Which the administration may want, but no town mayors or state governors want. The states still hold the cards here.

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    “Trump has said that the United States shouldn’t have midterm elections this year because midterm voters often vote against the president’s party.”

    Yeah, that’s why it’s called VOTING.

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    Wow it’s almost as though midterms represent some kind of check and balance. Trump and the republicans stand a good chance of being wiped out.