“If they are going to try to stand for election integrity, it hurts them to point out that this is directly related to the 2026 elections,” said Greta Bedekovics, associate director of democracy at the Center for American Progress. “It exposes that this is not about election integrity and national security, it’s about election rigging.”
It’s no accident that this comes even as Trump is expanding the use of the National Guard in Washington, D.C., and other cities, based—again—on a manufactured pretext, this time about crime. At bottom, Trump’s rant clearly signals his intent to use presidential power in every conceivable way he can to swing the midterm elections against Democrats. This could include ramped-up military maneuvers in Democratic strongholds or in swing areas—whether to intimate voters or to fabricate a crisis atmosphere meant to help Republicans—as well as whatever limits on voting he can impose, all justified with pretexts that he invents out of nothing.
We all need to be ready for this. Fortuitously, Trump has told us himself exactly what he intends to do.
uhp787 on August 18th, 2025 at 15:44 UTC »
and yet he 'won' his last election...if mail in = fraud then every single gop rep/senators who terms were up for re-election went unchallenged in the year he claimed the election was stolen from him via fruad.
go fuck off. the only fraud is him.
WhataHaack on August 18th, 2025 at 15:29 UTC »
Election fraud via mail in ballot is the easiest thing in the world to get caught doing.. someone needs to ask where all the arrests are.
Like to illegally vote via mail in most states you have to 1) register to vote 2) request a ballot be mailed to you 3) get that ballot from the mail fill it out and mail it back in
Now that's a lot of paper trail to leave, also it's not like you can request 50 mail in ballots to the same address let alone the 50k you'd need to make any fucking difference.. because that'd get you arrested immediately. So you'd need 50k eligible voters who you know aren't voting themselves, then 50k ballots mailed to 50k different addresses, the full those 50k ballots out and mail them back in... This is not a feasible way to rig an election.
SAJ-13 on August 18th, 2025 at 15:25 UTC »
I thought the GOP was all about states' rights...