If you’re worried about a fair midterm vote, you should be |
If you’re worried about a fair midterm vote, you should be
I’m getting increasingly worried about President Trump’s plans to interfere with, rig or subvert the 2026 and 2028 elections.
As his regime’s brutality, economic policies and war in the Middle East cause his popularity to drop, Trump is demanding that Congress make it harder for millions of people to vote in this year’s elections, including women who changed their name when they got married. His law would disproportionately keep people of color from being able to vote.
Trump’s goal is frighteningly clear. He told Republican lawmakers that passing the misnamed SAVE America Act would “guarantee” victory in this year’s elections. And he says it would make it virtually impossible for Democrats to win an election for 50 years. That’s not democracy. And it’s not how our elections should work. Generations of Americans fought and shed blood to protect the right to vote in free and fair elections and it is now up to us to reject Trump’s attacks on that right.
The intensity of Trump’s demand — repeated in interviews, on social media and in remarks to Republican lawmakers — reveals how much he fears the consequences of the subservient Mike Johnson (R-La.) being replaced with a Speaker of the House who takes the Constitution seriously. Trump is frantic to save his own political butt — so desperate that he recently said he would refuse to sign any other bills that come to his desk before the SAVE America Act.
Johnson has ushered the bill through the House a couple of times, only to have Trump demand new provisions, including a ban on mail-in voting. Trump even wants to add attacks on........