Today, Trump was asked about whether or not he would run for a third term. His response was chilling: “I would love to do it. I have the best numbers ever. Am I not ruling it out? You’ll have to tell me.”
Since beginning his second term, Trump has waged an endless war on voting rights and on the Constitution itself. He hands out Trump 2028 hats to U.S. Senators and foreign leaders within the White House like it’s candy (an illegal act by itself), and brought the hats into at least one Oval Office meeting with Democratic leaders.
Trump has directed Greg Abbott, the Governor of Texas, to begin a mid-decade gerrymandering effort, saying “We are entitled to 5 more seats,” designed to cut Democrats out of an already heavily Republican represented state.
A Trump billionaire and GOP operative, Scott Leiendecker, has bought out Dominion Voting Systems and rebranded it as, “Liberty Vote,” pledging to bring back “secure, fair, and verifiable” elections. Alarmingly, Leiendecker wants to do this by using paper ballots, one of the easiest ways to commit voter fraud and to rig elections. He now controls the voting systems used in 27 states.
Trump has placed prominent proponents of the “Big Lie,” the verifiably false claim that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, into key positions in the federal government. Trump’s entire cabinet refused to say who actually won the 2020 election during their confirmation hearings. One of these individuals, Heather Honey, now serves as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Election Integrity. A New York Times article reported that she suggested that Trump could declare a national emergency to justify new state and local election rules.
“And therefore, we can take these other steps without Congress and we can mandate that states do things and so on,” Honey said, according to the New York Times.
And if that’s not bad enough, the Trump appointed far-right Supreme Court is now looking at overturning key sections of the Voting Rights Act, the crucial legislation that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. If that were to happen, here is what the Congressional map would look like:
A possible scenario, as reported by The New York Times.
Micah Erfan and Sam Schwartz break down all the latest regarding this story, right here on The Siren Network.
