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Trump Completely Serious About Rigging Elections, Not Pretending To Hide It
https://www.wonkette.com/p/trump-completely-serious-about-riggingDoktor Zoom
Gavin Newsom reminds him there are other big states that could redistrict.
Now that he’s got his authoritarian takeover of the US government well underway, Donald Trump is eagerly embarking on another step in the authoritarian playbook: very openly talking about how he’d like to rig upcoming elections to preserve the thin Republican majority in Congress. No subtlety about it at all. Trump made a call to Republican members of Texas’s congressional delegation yesterday to inform them that the Texas legislature plans to gerrymander the electoral map to create five new Republican-majority districts, and then before boarding Marine One to fly to Pittsburgh, he said Texas would definitely do what he wants.
This administration is so openly and habitually corrupt that we honestly can’t remember whether this is the first time a US president has so openly called for states to gerrymander district maps for partisan advantage. We’re pretty sure it is.
After the helicopter landed at Andrews, Trump was even more eager to share his plans, musing that in addition to redistricting Texas and a “couple other states,” it would actually be good to do the same in more states, like four others, “I’ll let you figure them out.” Isn’t he cute when he plays coy like that?
Asked if he worried that California and other blue states might follow suit and add new Democratic-majority seats, Trump said, without missing a beat, “Well, we’ll fight them, they’re so corrupt in California, you never know what’s gonna happen, but we’ve done pretty well in the courts.”
Redistricting to add Republican seats is just a thing he wants, so it’s OK. California doing that in Democrats’ favor would be corrupt. As far as we can tell, nobody pointed out that looks a teensy bit contradictory. Probably because that would be a very nasty question that only a very evil, stupid person from Fake News would ask.
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REPORTER: Are you calling for a complete redrawing of the [Texas] congressional map?
TRUMP: No, just a simple redraw, we pick up five seats. But we have a couple of other states where we’ll pick up seats also.
This administration is so openly and habitually corrupt that we honestly can’t remember whether this is the first time a US president has so openly called for states to gerrymander district maps for partisan advantage. We’re pretty sure it is.
After the helicopter landed at Andrews, Trump was even more eager to share his plans, musing that in addition to redistricting Texas and a “couple other states,” it would actually be good to do the same in more states, like four others, “I’ll let you figure them out.” Isn’t he cute when he plays coy like that?
Asked if he worried that California and other blue states might follow suit and add new Democratic-majority seats, Trump said, without missing a beat, “Well, we’ll fight them, they’re so corrupt in California, you never know what’s gonna happen, but we’ve done pretty well in the courts.”
Redistricting to add Republican seats is just a thing he wants, so it’s OK. California doing that in Democrats’ favor would be corrupt. As far as we can tell, nobody pointed out that looks a teensy bit contradictory. Probably because that would be a very nasty question that only a very evil, stupid person from Fake News would ask.
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