Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday accused the Trump administration of “rigging the election” by dispatching federal poll monitors to five California counties, as voters cast ballots on Newsom’s Proposition 50 redistricting measure.
The Department of Justice announced Friday that it would deploy personnel to polling sites in Fresno, Kern, Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties to “ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law,” ahead of the state’s Nov. 4 special election.
In an interview with KQED’s Political Breakdown, Newsom said the move was a “setup” for the Trump administration to cast doubt on the potential victory of Proposition 50 — a plan to redraw the state’s congressional district lines to advantage Democrats.
We are commenting on a thread about the current president openly interfering in state elections. It can be assumed the elections will be compromised.
States are responsible for elections, not the feds
So far. Trump is already threatening to change this by sending troops to cities to enforce his election rules.
Constitution says no and states get to enforce that no
Are you a time traveler that has skipped past the last 9 months? Trump doesn’t care what the constitution says or about states rights. He’s sending trips in against the will of the governors.
You have no idea how few the federal troops really are, you think they’re more powerful than they are because you’ve only seen reports on where they’ve been striking performatively.
If Trump sent every federal agent they had into New York city, the city could dedicate less than half of their police force to arrest them all. They wouldn’t need to call the national guard, or any other security forces.
And then there’s no feds left to try anything in any other state.
Obviously that’s now how it’s going to work. They will strategically send them to polling places where the margins between democrats and republicans is close enough. Send 10 guardsmen and 3 ICE agents to each of these polling places and that may be all it takes to keep the house in 2026.
Below article tells you the 27 districts they will focus on first. How many guardsmen and ICE agents would you need to make any impact on 27 districts?
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/competitive-districts-will-decide-control-house
Edit: that link was from 2024 btw. 2026 probably has a new set of districts.
Only the smaller states are at any real risk, and only if they don’t cooperate with the larger democratic states to place troops to protect the sites
There’s more than enough available to the states if they decide to enforce safety that the feds simply can’t do anything
Are you just describing a full on civil war? There’s not going to be any states protecting other states.
Some of the competitive districts will be in republican states, so they’ll invite the military in (Gov Lee of TN doing this already in Memphis).
For other states, they will need to decide how much they want to escalate the confrontation with the federal government. Places like Arizona or Arkansas may not be able to at all.
And, Republicans only need to win enough seats to maintain the house after their redistricting BS.
Anyway, I hope I’m only describing a sci-fi/fantasy movie, but seeing the lack of respect Trump has for democracy already, I am not that hopeful.
No shit Nate. Y’all need to update your talking points, that one doesn’t hold water anymore.
Who’s the one with talking points? Because that one’s from the constitution. Push the states to oppose Trump’s interference
Trump has violated the letter of the Constitution dozens of times. We are literally on a thread about Trump sending feds to ratfuck local elections. Give your balls a tug and get your head out your ass.
You’re missing my point by miles, do something to oppose him then!
It’s not a binary issue. Elections have been getting more and more compromised for decades. 2026 will be even more compromised. They will not be entirely compromised, and we have to keep working from the assumption that they won’t be unwinnable, even while preparing for the possibility that we might not win them.
Honestly, I fear that Democrats are more responsible for hurting their chances than Republicans. Even as bad as things have gotten, the Democratic establishment has continued to dig in and refuse to give any ground whatsoever to progressives. It’s becoming a real mask-off moment for a lot of rank and file liberals.
Looks like the Russian bots have gotten to lemmy. Fuck outta here with your literal Russian bot propaganda talking point.
LOL, wut? Yeah, there aren’t any Americans fed up with the Democratic establishment. I’m just making that shit up. Haha, you got me.
BTW: Has Schumer endorsed Mamdani yet?