Alarming: "GOP has 'dark' and 'brazen' game plan to steal elections -- and it just might work" (Alternet)

President Donald Trump, hoping to prevent Democrats from flipping the U.S. House of Representatives in 2026, is pushing an aggressive gerrymandering/redistricting plan in Texas, Missouri and other red states. The idea is to eliminate as many Democrat-friendly districts as possible.

Countless Democratic strategists are attacking the scheme as underhanded, and California Gov. Gavin Newsom is responding with a redistricting plan that would give his state even more Democrat-leaning U.S. House districts. But in an article published by the conservative website The Bulwark on September 24, journalist/author Steve Posner warns that MAGA Republicans have another undemocratic "game plan" that makes gerrymandering "seem quaint."

"Democratic governors and state legislators have threatened their own redistricted routes to the majority," explains Posner, who teaches writing at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. "But even if they succeed or manage to win the thing fair and square, Trump may uncover another way to claim what the electorate denies him. Namely, Trump's allies in the House could contest the narrowest Democratic victories, demanding 2020-style recount after recount to engineer enough ballots to win. If state election boards resist, Trump could pivot, goading Speaker Mike Johnson into tasking the Committee on House Administration, or some other panel packed with MAGA acolytes, into investigating bogus allegations of fraud."

Posner continues, "Following typical election-denying logic, they'd eventually hit Trump’s numbers — and then, Johnson could push for a full House vote to seat the aggrieved Republican candidates. Too brazen, even for MAGA? It so happens that Speaker Johnson has the authority to do it."

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