A batch of private GOP polling data obtained by Axios revealed that President Donald Trump’s mass deportation policy is wildly unpopular with independent and undecided voters, raising “alarm” among the president’s team and the president himself."I wouldn't say he's concerned about the policy. He wan...
  • U7826391786239@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    lose every single race in the mid terms and for the foreseeable future.

    don’t be too sure. they’ve spent every waking moment since 2020 taking over election boards, gerrymandering, and otherwise double-re-fucking the election process to try and prevent them ever losing again. in my own state, the state board of elections was promptly overrun by deep R trump loyalists, and have proceeded to cut polling locations in every county in the state, which does literally nothing but hurt the D voter–not only because of access, but that also makes it easier for them to send “monitors” to “watch” the polling, who i’m sure won’t really be there to intimidate people

    i wish i was more optimistic, but i’m not the same person i was on 11/4/2024

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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      1 day ago

      But they’re assuming they’re base won’t leave when doing those gerrymandering things. This is why he is talking about cancelling midterms. Gerrymandering with no base is worse than no gerrymandering. He’ll lose a bigger area.

      • U7826391786239@lemmy.zip
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        1 day ago

        it’s not just the votes

        included a provision written behind closed doors with no public scrutiny that would make it easier for judges to throw out election results. Under the plan, losing candidates would no longer have to prove that individual fraudulent votes swung the election but rather that the number of allegedly fraudulent votes exceeded the margin of victory

        Other GOP-controlled states have already changed their laws to make it easier to void election results. As part of its sweeping voter suppression law, Georgia’s heavily gerrymandered legislature removed Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger as the chair and a voting member of the state election board after he rebuffed Trump’s attempt to overturn Joe Biden’s victory. The legislature will now appoint a majority of board members, and the board, in turn, can take over up to four county election boards it deems “underperforming”—raising the prospect that Republicans could assume control of election operations in heavily Democratic areas like Atlanta’s Fulton County. In concert with a provision allowing right-wing groups to mount an unlimited number of challenges to voter eligibility, these changes will make it easier for Republicans to contest close elections and possibly overturn the results.

        long story short: the end goal was always to make it so that state election boards (all R, of course) can just call the winner, regardless of the actual voting results

        https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/06/14-gop-controlled-states-have-passed-laws-to-impede-free-elections/

        • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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          1 day ago

          But those state election boards have to survive too. They have to live amongst the people that hate what’s going on? I’m not sure. I’m also not saying you’re wrong. I just don’t know.

          • SabinStargem@lemmy.todayEnglish
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            9 hours ago

            The Regime might have a generous vacation policy for their election boards. A free trip to Mar-a-Lago or Alligator Alcatraz, depending on your affiliation.

          • U7826391786239@lemmy.zip
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            1 day ago

            have to live amongst the people that hate what’s going on?

            i don’t think so. you don’t attain to a position that high in the state government without having resources/connections (read fucktons of money), which means you don’t have to live around or even look at the poors

              • U7826391786239@lemmy.zip
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                1 day ago

                progressive people want someone who’s smarter than themselves to lead. conservatives want someone who’s exactly as dumb as they are. which is, as you say: really really fucking pants-on-head stupid

                this is also why words like “progress,” “education,” “expert,” even “science” have become pejoratives to them