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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,036 posts)
Tue Aug 18, 2020, 03:18 PM Aug 2020

Trump floats idea that fraud could lead to re-do of November election

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said a massive shift to mail-in voting in the November presidential election could cause so many problems officials might have to re-do the vote.

Trump has said repeatedly and without evidence that a shift to universal mail-in voting - something most states have not proposed doing - will lead to fraud in the Nov. 3 election, when he faces Democratic challenger Joe Biden who currently holds a substantial lead in public opinion polls.

Trump does not have the authority to reschedule an election. A national election "re-do" has never occurred in the more than 200 years the U.S. has held elections, including during the Civil War, the Great Depression and two world wars.

"It will end up being a rigged election or they will never come out with an outcome," Trump told reporters on Tuesday. "They'll have to do it again, and nobody wants that."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-floats-idea-that-fraud-could-lead-to-re-do-of-november-election/ar-BB186LOt?li=BBnbfcQ&ocid=DELLDHP

So I guess he intends to do massive fraud.

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Trump floats idea that fraud could lead to re-do of November election (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2020 OP
Shorter Trump: "I'm going to lose."  ( n/t ) Make7 Aug 2020 #1
No Donnie nykym Aug 2020 #2
He must mean a re-do of the Nov 2016... 3catwoman3 Aug 2020 #3
Is he plotting to usurp the powers of Congress now? procon Aug 2020 #4
That's the sort of fantasy he'll be scratching on the wall of his jail cell. lagomorph777 Aug 2020 #5

procon

(15,805 posts)
4. Is he plotting to usurp the powers of Congress now?
Tue Aug 18, 2020, 04:51 PM
Aug 2020

Why not just order his Praetorian Guard to lock the doors and disband the whole legislative branch? Or just lock 'em all up to silence their objections to his coup as he Anoints himself King or Dictator for life.

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