Trump Reveals Sinister New Plot to Game Elections

[Javaman]

(And here we are. I was talking about just this last week and got dog piled.)

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-reveals-sinister-new-plot-to-game-elections

President Donald Trump has urged Republicans to seize control of elections and place voting under federal authority, in one of his most explicit signs yet that he wants to game the system.

In a podcast interview with Dan Bongino, his former FBI deputy director, Trump suggested Republicans should “nationalize” elections around the country by taking over the way ballots are cast and counted.

“The Republicans should say, we want to take over,” he said, claiming without evidence that people were being “brought to our country to vote, and they vote illegally.”

“We should take over the voting, the voting in at least many, 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting.”

The president’s comments came less than a week after the FBI raided an elections office outside Atlanta, seizing ballots and other voting records from the 2020 election in Georgia.

More at link

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Damn right I’m going to say it, I told you so

[roamer65]

1. Not going to happen.

[Javaman]

3. After everything he's done, after everything he's completely fucked over

And continue to fuck over, you honestly believe he’s not going to take his only chance to keep himself out of prison.

I wish I had you confidence

Not me. I predicted Jan 6th before it happened, I predicted he would have Americans shot and killed, and I hold fast to my prediction for this as well.

Growing up in NYC, I know of the trumps well. Nothing at all is beneath them. They will do absolutely anything to survive and if that means totally fucking over our midterms one way or another, he will.

[roamer65]

6. 2026 may be the last attempt at an election under the US Constitution.

The 27 state coalition is the beginning of the end of the United States as we know it and he won’t come out the other end of it intact.

I predicted we would have a repeat of the Hartford Convention of 1814.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. MaddowBlog-'Republicans ought to nationalize the voting': Trump eyes radical power-grab

Those concerned about democracy don’t have the luxury of simply shrugging with indifference to the president’s latest conspiratorial nonsense.

Four weeks ago: Trump floated the idea of canceling future elections
Three weeks ago: “When you think of it, we shouldn’t even have an election”
Yesterday: “The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting”

But it’s not just rhetoric: all of this has come against a backdrop of concrete action.

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-02-03T14:05:32.050Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/republicans-ought-to-nationalize-the-voting-trump-eyes-radical-power-grab

Partway through the interview, Bongino briefly referred to crime rates, to which Trump responded with a meandering rant across a variety of unrelated subjects, including his bizarre beliefs about election administration.

Trump: "These people were brought to our country to vote, & they vote illegally. The Republicans should say, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. We have states that I won that show I didn't win. You're gonna see something in Georgia"

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-02-02T18:03:24.971Z

In the course of an unsettling tirade about his “landslide” victory in 2024 (which clearly wasn’t a landslide) and his belief that undocumented immigrants were brought into the U.S. specifically to vote against Republicans (undocumented immigrants cannot and do not vote), Trump elaborated on his vision for the nation’s electoral system.

“You know, it’s amazing that the Republicans aren’t tougher on it,” the president told Bongino. “The Republicans should say, ‘We want to take over.’ We should take over the voting, the voting in at least many, 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting.”.....

Trump has long made clear that he rejects the idea that Americans settle their differences at the ballot box, and in recent weeks he’s offered fresh evidence of his antipathy toward democracy. On the anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks, for example, Trump briefly floated the idea of canceling future U.S. elections. A few weeks ago, he told Reuters that he’s so impressed with himself and his record that “when you think of it, we shouldn’t even have an election.”

While Trump doesn’t have a credible plan to take over the nation’s system of elections, his increasingly frequent and radical declarations have been unsubtle. They’ve also begun to result in concrete action: It was just last week when FBI agents raided an elections office in Fulton County, Georgia, seizing ballots and voting records as part of the president’s conspiracy theory, which included Trump personally thanking the agents for their efforts.

This coincided with Trump’s Justice Department pursuing an aggressive campaign to acquire voter rolls from states where Democrats won in 2024.

Those concerned about democracy, voting rights and the integrity of election results don’t have the luxury of simply shrugging with indifference at the president’s latest nonsense. It’s part of a broader pattern of behavior that extends well beyond ridiculous whining.

[Javaman]

4. Exactly, if there ever was a call to defend the very basic

Concept of our democracy, free and fair elections, it is now

[johnnyfins]

5. Ill give you a scenario.

We have Maduro in jail right now. He could say that Venezuela helped steal the 2020 election for Biden. TSF already has Fulton County Georgia's ballots. Bring in Tulsi Gabbard to say that Foreign entities stole the 2020 election and that there is a (this is the most important part) "National Security risk" with our elections.

Watch them. They are going to try to sell this bullshit to the country. The magats will swallow it whole, the left will call it bullshit and protest and the admin will send armed goons to nationalize the November election in only blue areas.

Don't say they can't do it. They will do ANYTHING to hold onto power.