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9 thoughts on “Trump’s calls to ‘nationalize’ elections have state, local election officials bracing for tumult

  1. This is all an effort to “prime the pump” to normalize proactively seizing ballots in any race where republicans might start with a lead that is subsequently lost to destroy chains of custody and open the door for the House to declare their preferred candidate as the winner.

  2. General reminder that the Republican Party has been lying about “voter fraud” for decades and with no evidence to back it up explicitly to take this kind of action. Their policy proposals and general method of governing is wildly unpopular and they know that, should they retain free and fair elections, they will lose. Changing policy positions to actually win elections would upset their super-wealthy mega-donors, so they need to cheat.

  3. Noted not a peep from Young or Banks, and Young is a proven fold anyway to Trump’s illogical rants and threats. When are the members of Congress, our elected “representatives” going to stand up to this raving lunatic!? Trump wants to federalize only those states have been historically Blue so he can ensure the elections are rigged just like some Third World Dictator.

  4. State and local election officials, if they believe in free elections, should be demanding their national representatives impeach and remove the President over this clear and obvious violation of his Oath of Office.

  5. At the rate this country is deteriorating….which is at almost a cosmic level….(just ask the common person under say age 35, who the 14th President was and what happened under his leadership) none of this will matter……

    It was said that it only takes a generation (that’s 100 years in case those do not know) to loose a country…….well, I’d say we are at the 65% level due to the left and their WOKE agenda – and we will be at the 75% level soon…unless the right can educate people how WOKE IS SO BROKE!!!!!

    According to ChatGPT – “When people imagine 65%-75% national deterioration, the real tipping point does not come from GDP or politics – it’s a SOCIAL NORM COLLAPSE!

    A country like the USA can survive economic crisis. It will struggle to survive when most people stop believing that RULES apply”.

    HMMMMMMMMMM……………….

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