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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, I'm describing sending armed security that outnumber what the feds try to send.
If the feds think they still can instigate shit when outnumbered, they might end up starting a civil war - but the states wouldn't start it.
There's already other stuff like the health compacts in place between some states. Voting safety compacts might also happen