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We need to examine some of Donald Trump’s comments about the upcoming election and deal with what they really mean.
Last October, Trump told an audience “You don’t have to vote. Don’t worry about voting.”
He said it again at a far-right conference in June: “We don’t need votes.” At a rally a week later, the same thing. But this time he added that Republicans only need to go over the votes “once they’re cast.”
In an interview in July, he said “We’ll have lawyers at every poll booth. In fact, my instruction [to Republicans]? We don’t need the votes.”
At a rally this past weekend, he abandoned his teleprompter during a rant about inflation and changed the topic without warning.
“You know, they do polls on this stuff, and I’m at like 93%,” Trump said, referring to poll numbers that don’t exist. “Why are we having an election?”
Donald Trump is the first convicted felon presidential nominee in history. He’s also the first to tell supporters they don’t have to vote, and the first to suggest the country skips the democratic process altogether.
We’re having an election because that is how American democracy works. Donald Trump does not care about this country or our democracy, and he never has. He also doesn’t care about winning, because he thinks he won’t have to.
Last month, the Trump campaign sued Michigan to stop them from expanding voter registration sites, fearing Kamala Harris would step in for Joe Biden and spark a wave of first-time Democrat voters. (Joe dropped out less than a week later).
In Georgia, officials just passed a new rule that will make it impossible NOT to sow distrust in the state’s election results. Georgia will likely be the first state in November to declare that it “can’t” certify a Kamala Harris win.
TODAY, the Republican Party asked the Supreme Court to suspend the rights of 40,000 Arizona voters they allege didn’t provide proof of citizenship when they registered to vote.
That is a lie, like all of the lies they told ahead of the 2020 election. We checked Arizona’s voter registration form. The only way these 40,000 people could be registered to vote is if they DID provide a state ID or driver’s license.
All this proves is that they are already laying the groundwork to send the election results to the Council for National Policy / Federalist Society-packed Supreme Court.
If they get away with it, then Trump will have been right: he never needed votes. They will give him the election because he is their Trojan horse for Project 2025.
Donald Trump and the GOP filed pointless lawsuits and pushed conspiracy theories in 2020, too. They do it so Republican voters won’t believe the election results. They want MAGA ready to FIGHT THE FRAUD and STOP THE STEAL when (not if) he loses in November.
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Speaking of voter fraud, we did find one illegal voter in our research today, but not in Arizona – in Florida. That voter’s name is Donald John Trump.
Trump cast an early ballot last week, but Florida’s state constitution is very specific about who can vote. Convicted felons don’t make the list.
Lucky for Trump, Gov. Ron DeSantis has ignored state law and refused to order a review of this felon’s registration.
If you could use a little hope today, consider this: Trump is scared, and he should be.
Trump is afraid his plan won’t work if Kamala beats him too “bigly” in swing states.
That’s why his comments have shifted from “We don’t need votes” to win to “Why are we having an election?” With the Harris-Walz shakeup in the race, Trump knows there’s a chance that he’ll lose so badly that even the courts won’t dare to hand him the White House.
Here’s hoping.
Sources
Twitter / X – Last October’s comments
Matt Fleming on Twitter / X – How Trump voted illegally
Photo: Gage Skidmore CC BY-SA 2.0
