Donald Trump suggested on a conservative podcast released on Monday that Republican state officials “take over” and “nationalize” elections in 15 states to protect the party from being voted out of office.

Trump framed the issue as a means to prevent undocumented immigrants from voting. Claims that noncitizens are voting in numbers that can affect an election are a lie. But it raises concerns about potential efforts by the president to rig the November midterm elections.

While describing his victory in terms of counties he won in 2024 – and ignoring the vast difference in population between large urban counties and rural counties– Trump said of immigrants: “If Republicans don’t get them out, you will never win another election as a Republican.”

Trump said that immigrants “were brought” to the United States to vote, “and they vote illegally. And the, you know, it’s amazing that the Republicans aren’t tougher on it. The Republicans should say ‘we want to take over.’ We should take over the voting in at least many – 15 places – the Republicans ought to nationalize the voting.”

Riiiiight …

  • in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social
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    Can’t wait for the poll tax and Jim Crow tests to ensure only the “correct people” vote.

    So, like, did the 60’s mean nothing to the boomers?

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      As the late, great Saint Charlie Kirk said, “We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s.”

      The MLK of our generation, right there. /s

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      He practically admitted that the deportation push is (at least partly) aimed at reducing the number of potential Democratic voters.

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    this fucking dipshit has been whining about “fraud” since the day he started, including when he “won”

    the idea, of course, is to implant the notion that “if i lose, it’s only because of fraud. if i win, it’s because the people have spoken” which is trying to remove the notion that maybe it’s fucking republicans who habitually commit fraud (which they do), from the public consciousness

    typical lying fucking liars telling lies, all day every day.

    you want voter fraud? look at the GOP

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      This is true, if you look up confirmed convictions related to voter fraud, it’s literally always Repugs.

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    He can spill bullshit all day about this because it is illegal. He would need everyone in position to make that… oh no.

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    We should nationalize the republican party, and the heritage foundation, and at that rate we might as well nationalize the democrats too