Trump's diagnosis could change everything -- but GOP still scheming to suppress vote

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Trump's diagnosis could change everything — but GOP still scheming to suppress vote
With Trump in quarantine and his campaign suspended, don't think Republicans are dropping their nefarious schemes

HEATHER DIGBY PARTON
OCTOBER 2, 2020 12:59PM


(Salon) Leave it to Donald Trump to test positive for COVID-19 just two days after a disastrous debate performance. It's tempting to think this is yet another of his reality show stunts, but it's hard to believe that he could get away with faking something like this considering that the Trump White House leaks like a sieve. It's more likely he does have the virus and his best-case scenario will be that he's one of the lucky asymptomatic cases and can spend the rest of the campaign testifying to his youthfulness and strength, no doubt attributable to "good genes."

As the man himself says, "We'll see what happens."

Meanwhile, there's still a lot going on that requires some sustained attention from the American people, none more important than the ongoing threat that the election, now just a month away, is going to be sabotaged. I don't use that word lightly. It is becoming very obvious that this is being planned and will be implemented in an attempt to ensure that Trump cannot lose.

In fact, according to some incredible reporting by Jim Rutenberg in the New York Times Magazine, Republican operatives were locked and loaded back in 2016, but just didn't need to pull the trigger. They had lawyers at the ready to contest the election on the basis of "voter fraud" in all those close states if it had gone the other way.

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Right now, aside from throwing sand in the gears of the post office, they're going to great lengths in states all over the country to make it difficult to vote early or drop off mail-in ballots. They're filing lawsuits against states that want to count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive later, a practice that's been in place for absentee ballots and military ballots for many years. On Thursday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott abruptly ordered the removal of all but one early-voting drop box in each county. That includes Harris County, the home of Houston — an overwhelmingly Democratic city — which encompasses nearly 1,800 square miles and about 4.7 million people. ...............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2020/10/02/trumps-diagnosis-could-change-everything--but-gop-still-scheming-to-suppress-vote/