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Trump’s ‘election integrity’ chief claimed president has future powers to declare voting emergency (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 9 months ago by dude@lemmings.world to c/news@lemmings.world

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

“We have some additional powers that don’t exist right now,” she said. “[W]e can take these other steps without Congress and we can mandate that states do things and so on.”

Not sure how to parse that first sentence. Anyway, Trump can't allow fair midterms. The GOP is going to get clobbered in the House and Senate and the new team will begin impeachment proceedings. I'd expect some GOP defections just to get this fucking monkey off their back.

Think on all those who regret sitting out the last election, now couple those votes with the people Trump has lost this go round. Probably few defectors will vote D, but they'll sit it out which is the same difference. Keep in mind, MAGA can only shrink. No one is coming onboard at this late date.

So what do you think his play will be?

[–] BMW_stick@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

His play IS to stop the midterms. True citizen Patriots like us are protesting as we should, but some are getting so angry that they're turning to violence, that is all the administration needs to declare a national emergency and to shutdown any effort for voting to take place.