Trump openly pushing for disenfranchisement

piezoe said:
The path to victory for the Democrats is simple. All they have to do is promise Putin they will lift the Sanctions on Russia and repeal the Magnitsky Act.
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The Communists have long been in bed with the Democratic Party. Putin is still actively supporting getting Democrats/Communists/Demonists/Commocrats/Whatever “elected” into political positions at all levels of Government.

You should be happy: Biden will be the perfect lapdog for Putin. As long as Biden does not become incontinent, I suppose.
 
BeautifulStranger said:
It’s hard to get too passionate about the issue when our system leaves us a “Choice”, but no real representation.

Trump may have meant well early on, only to end up becoming part of the swamp. Perhaps you may feel I’m being too generous.

And career politician Joe Biden? The only thing shiney about Joe is the medal he got from Obama.

I guess those of us who are employed and still have our health should consider ourselves lucky and not get overly obsessive which old horse rides us the next four years.
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As long as its not Trump.
 
BeautifulStranger said:
The Communists have long been in bed with the Democratic Party. Putin is still actively supporting getting Democrats/Communists/Demonists/Commocrats/Whatever “elected” into political positions at all levels of Government.

You should be happy: Biden will be the perfect lapdog for Putin. As long as Biden does not become incontinent, I suppose.
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Nonsense. President Britney 2020

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BeautifulStranger said:
The Communists have long been in bed with the Democratic Party. Putin is still actively supporting getting Democrats/Communists/Demonists/Commocrats/Whatever “elected” into political positions at all levels of Government.

You should be happy: Biden will be the perfect lapdog for Putin. As long as Biden does not become incontinent, I suppose.
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There you go then! Mission Accomplished.
 
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/24/poli...ee-california-vote-by-mail-lawsuit/index.html
Republican National Committee sues California to halt vote-by-mail for November general election

(CNN)The Republican National Committee and other Republican groups have filed a lawsuit against California to stop the state from mailing absentee ballots to all voters ahead of the 2020 general election, a move that was made in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

The suit comes after California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, announced this month that the state would move to encourage all voters to cast their ballots by mail in November -- the most widespread expansion of vote-by-mail that has been announced as a result of the pandemic and in the nation's most populous state.

The RNC's lawsuit challenges that step, marking a significant escalation in the legal battles between Republicans and Democrats that are currently being waged in more than a dozen states.

"Democrats continue to use this pandemic as a ploy to implement their partisan election agenda, and Governor Newsom's executive order is the latest direct assault on the integrity of our elections," said RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel in a statement.

"Newsom's illegal power grab is a recipe for disaster that would destroy the confidence Californians deserve to have in the security of their vote."

McDaniel's comments echo President Donald Trump who has expressed vehement opposition to Newsom's order and has pushed back strenuously against expansions to vote-by-mail across the country.

On Sunday morning, Trump tweeted another attack on vote-by-mail, which included several claims for which he provided no evidence.

"The United States cannot have all Mail In Ballots," Trump tweeted. "It will be the greatest Rigged Election in history.

"People grab them from mailboxes, print thousands of forgeries and 'force' people to sign. Also, forge names. Some absentee OK, when necessary. Trying to use Covid for this Scam!" he added.

There is no evidence to support the President's claim that "thousands" of forgeries are linked to vote-by-mail or that there is widespread evidence of people being coerced to sign absentee ballots.

Sunday's suit -- filed on behalf of the RNC, the National Republican Congressional Committee and the California Republican Party -- seeks to halt Newsom's order, arguing that it "violates eligible citizens' right to vote."

The groups argue that Newsom's order will lead to fraud because the state plans to mail ballots to inactive voters automatically, which "invites fraud, coercion, theft, and otherwise illegitimate voting."

Studies have found no evidence of widespread voter fraud as a result of in-person or mail-in voting.

California Democrats have said that the move is necessary to ensure that voters have safe and secure access to the polls during the pandemic.

"California will continue to defend Californians' right to vote, including their right to vote by mail, and the right to hold an election that is safe, secure, and accessible. Voters shouldn't have to choose between their health and their right to vote," Jesse Melgar, press secretary for Newsom, said in a statement Sunday night.

"California will not force voters to choose between protecting their health and exercising their right to vote," Secretary of State Alex Padilla said earlier this month after Newsom announced the move.

"We are meeting our obligation to provide an accessible, secure, and safe election this November. Sending every registered voter a ballot by mail is smart policy and absolutely the right thing to do during this COVID-19 pandemic."

The lawsuit is part of a $20 million effort spearheaded by the RNC to combat Democratic-led expansions of vote-by-mail across the country.

This story has been updated to include a statement from Newsom's press secretary.
 
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/19/trump-interview-mail-voting-329307
'My biggest risk': Trump says mail-in voting could cost him reelection
With his poll numbers slumping, the president warns Republicans in a POLITICO interview not to abandon him.

President Donald Trump called mail-in voting the biggest threat to his reelection and said his campaign's multimillion-dollar legal effort to block expanded ballot access could determine whether he wins a second term.

In an Oval Office interview Thursday focusing on the 2020 election, the president also warned his party in blunt terms not to abandon him and cast Hillary Clinton as a more formidable opponent than Joe Biden, despite his commanding lead in polls.

The president’s assertion that mail-in voting will endanger his reelection comes as states across the country are rushing to accommodate remote voting in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Millions of voters could be disenfranchised if they decide to stay home on Election Day rather than risk contracting the virus at crowded polling stations.

But Trump and his campaign argue, despite a lack of evidence, that widespread mail-in voting will benefit Democrats and invite fraud. The Republican Party is spending tens of millions of dollars on a multi-front legal battle.

“My biggest risk is that we don’t win lawsuits,” Trump said. “We have many lawsuits going all over. And if we don’t win those lawsuits, I think — I think it puts the election at risk.”

Trump was asked a two-part question during the interview: Would a substantial amount of mail-in voting — which is widely expected because of coronavirus — cause him to question the legitimacy of the election? And would he accept the results no matter what?

“Well, you can never answer the second question, right? Because Hillary kept talking about she’s going to accept, and they never accepted it. You know. She lost too. She lost good.” Clinton conceded the day after the 2016 election.

Trump struck a firmer note last week in an interview with Fox News, when he said he would leave office peacefully if he lost.

The president’s rare admission of concern about his political future comes at the most precarious moment of his presidency. Polls have shown the president trailing in an array of key states — some of which haven’t been lost by a Republican in decades — amid criticism of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and his response to the protests against police brutality.

Now, with Republicans fighting to keep their Senate majority, lawmakers running in competitive races are having to decide whether to align themselves with the president or risk his wrath by creating daylight. Trump made clear those who choose the latter will pay a heavy price.

Joined by top aides, including his son-in-law Jared Kushner, Trump put Senate Republicans on notice: Running away from him would only trigger a revolt by his loyalists.

“If they don’t embrace, they’re going to lose, because, you know, I have a very hard base. I have the strongest base people have ever seen,” said Trump, who met with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell last week to discuss the party’s prospects in key Senate races.

Trump is keenly aware of how he stacks up against other Republicans on the ballot this fall. At one point during the interview, White House Political Director Brian Jack handed the president a document showing how he had fared better in several primaries this spring than a handful of Republican senators he shared the ballot with in their home states. Included on the chart was North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis, one of the most vulnerable Republican incumbents up for reelection this November. While Tillis received 78 percent in the state's March primary, Trump got 94 percent, it noted.

"Wow, that’s great in North Carolina, huh?" Trump remarked as he looked over the sheet.

Senate Republicans have largely remained in lockstep with the president, but there have been a few exceptions. Maine Sen. Susan Collins, one of the party’s most vulnerable lawmakers, has yet to say whether she backs Trump’s reelection and didn’t appear with him when he visited her home state last week. Michigan GOP Senate candidate John James recently told black community leaders that he disagreed with Trump on “plenty, plenty of issues.”

During the interview, Trump rattled off a list of senators who lost their seats after separating themselves from him. He recalled ending the political careers of Tennessee Republican Bob Corker (“So, anyway, I went after him,” he said. “No longer a senator.”) and Arizona Republican Jeff Flake (“He went from 54 percent to 3.”). Nevada Republican Dean Heller “went down” in the general election (“How did it work out for the great senator of Nevada? Not too good.”).

“We will, on occasion, have some senators that want to be cute,” he said. “And they don’t want to embrace their president.”

Much of the president’s focus, though, was on his own race. He portrayed Biden as a weaker candidate than Clinton. Clinton, Trump said, was “obviously smarter" than Biden. And after savaging Clinton for having "no stamina" in 2016, the president indicated he thought she had more energy than the 77-year-old Biden.

"I can tell you a lot about Hillary," Trump said. "She had a lot of energy and she was smart."

Even as coronavirus cases are rising in many places, the president insisted the virus is on the decline. He said it is “heading south" — "meaning leaving.” Days before his first major rally during the pandemic, Trump accused Biden’s campaign of using coronavirus as an excuse to shield him from public scrutiny, including questions from the media.

"We haven’t really seen the real Joe because they have him — they’re hiding him," Trump said. Biden and his campaign say he's acting responsibly and heeding the advice of public health experts.

Trump was clearly fixated on the forthcoming tell-all book by former National Security Adviser John Bolton. He described Bolton as a “whack job” and a “sick customer” and said that “everybody thought he was totally nuts.” He recalled having a conversation with Bolton in which the former adviser defended his outspoken support for the Iraq war.

“I said, ‘John, honestly, if you believe that now — I could understand maybe at the time — but if you believe that now, there’s something seriously wrong with you,’” Trump said.

As he was wrapping up the interview, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin entered the Oval Office to summon Trump for a meeting with the governors of Nebraska and Oklahoma. Before they headed out, Trump looked over a critical review of the Bolton book and the two reveled in the drubbing. The president appeared very pleased.
 
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