“The Republicans should say, we want to take over, we should take over the voting, the voting in at least many, 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting,” Trump told Dan Bongino, the former deputy director of the FBI, in a podcast appearance.
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On several occasions, Trump has pledged to change how the country votes, zeroing in on methods he falsely claims lead to fraudulent voting. In August, he said he was going to “lead a movement” to end mail-in ballots, and vowed to sign an executive order banning them, in addition to voting machines. He did not end up signing the order.
The president also kicked off a rare mid-decade redistricting campaign intended to help Republicans win additional US House seats in November’s midterm elections.
Trump coming up with ideas that Republicans had been implementing since Eisenhower is not a great sign for him in 2026.
Half the joke of this administration has been Donnie saying the quiet parts through a bullhorn. The other half has been him fumbling them in ways that would make Evan Mecham blush. Dick Cheney is absolutely spinning in his grave with this shit.
It does seem like a tacit admission he recognizes that states control voting.
And that he wants Republicans in some of those states to “take over the voting”.
Well that’s not exactly tacit, but yeah.
It seems they’ve finally figured out that it’s much harder to rig a Congressional election, nearly impossible. With a presidential election, you only have to flip one race in only seven swing states, but over 400 districts spread out over America is much tougher.
So they have to take over management of the voting in the most vulnerable states. What they’ll do is come up with a weak rationalization for taking over the voting, and declare it, and then suspend elections for some cockamamie reason (the voting records are so messed up, it will take years to sort it out…).
The states will refuse to cooperate, hold their own elections, and MAGA will declare the result invalid, since the MAGA government already took over the voting, and suspended it. Then we can have a nice showdown with Mike Johnson refusing to give up Speakership or swear on the new Democratic Reps.
The phrase Constitutional Crisis gets thrown around a lot, but this will be the real thing.
But why is saying this out loud such a taboo? I regularly get downvoted to hell for saying that there’s a real danger the midterms might get rigged in some states. Or is the problem – like one commenter seemed to imply – pointing it out but not coming up with concrete ideas on how to fix it?
That’s not how this works Donnie you assclown
Fuck no
Let’s say they could approve this. For sure it will be no time do this by now, they could not change all preparations for this midterms otherwise they would need to cancel, because there is no time to prepere…. Ohhhhhhbbb! I get it.
Desperate.
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Here’s the deal: If you are American and you want to be able to vote in the future, you have one option, and it’s bloody awful.
If you choose to do nothing, you choose to not have voting rights. If me telling you this upsets you, ask yourself: am I more upset that it is the truth or that someone is telling the truth to me?
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I signed up, but I really have to wonder why they need names and zip codes?
Seems like an easy target if that information leaks. Trump’s regime would love that list
Dude… They already know the list. Everybody posts their stupid opinions all over public forums, sometimes anonymous, sometimes with verified identities, and likely very rarely with a vpn. It would take very little for “the government” to compile that list with even more intimate details, and I assume that’s already been done. They know who you are and where you stand. The idea that we can think, much less act, in anonymity is antiquated.
If you want to organize an illegal general strike where last time the US government just started killing people on the strike line… Go right ahead.
