Democrats say supreme court rejection of Trump mail ballot restrictions will ensure ‘safe, secure and accurate elections’ – US politics live
Comments come after court on Monday rejected the president’s mail ballot restrictions ahead of the November midterm elections
Supreme court rejects Trump’s mail ballot restrictions for midterm elections Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Lawmakers have given their support to the supreme court’s rejection of Donald Trump’s bid to restrict mail ballots for the midterm elections. Mitch McConnell, the 84-year-old former Senate majority leader from Kentucky, was seen in Washington for the first t...
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They’ll find another way to cheat.
They have plans for Before, During, and After the election. Some of the Before Plans have worked, some haven't.
It will be the same with the During and After Plans. Some will work, some won't. The idea is that enough plans will work that they'll suppress enough votes to win.
You can't rig a Midterm, you can only influence it. The Dems have to vote in numbers so large, that it overwhelms their suppression attempts. Part of that comes from demoralizing MAGA voters, so they don't vote at all.
I wonder how many of the maga voters are still interested in voting. Trump isn’t really fighting to making things better for them financially. On the contrary
It will not. They will stop mailed ballots regardless. They have been already.
According to the recent whistleblower, USPS is ignoring the courts.
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-usps-liedto-us-the-court-and
The individuals carrying out these orders should be indicted & incarcerated.
This is where the conspiracy theorist in me goes. SCOTUS upholds mail in, in an attempt to put people’s minds at ease. USPS is going to fuck with it anyway so it’ll suppress more votes.
Had they flat out denied it, there would have been a ground swell of “get out the vote in person”, which would have raised the number of counted votes.
Granted for the latter, they’re going to send ICE in to intimidate people. But that would be much harder to do with a large number of people already mobilized.
That's some AI levels of overstatement. "We've fixed 'x' so now the alphabet is rock solid."
You've fixed approximately 4% of the alphabet and declared victory...