“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.
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?