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struggle4progress

(126,287 posts)
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 06:10 PM 21 hrs ago

rump scheme to override midterm vote with bogus crisis

MS NOW
Apr 7, 2026

Rachel Maddow talks with Senator Mark Warner, top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, about reporting in the Washington Post that people close to Donald Trump are being pitched an idea to use fake intelligence about foreign election interference to allow Trump to declare an emergency and take over the voting system ahead of this year's midterm elections.

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rump scheme to override midterm vote with bogus crisis (Original Post) struggle4progress 21 hrs ago OP
But its okay for JD to make a trip to influence and interfere with Hungary's election DUMember24 21 hrs ago #1
Really? Because SOME B.See 21 hrs ago #2

DUMember24

(110 posts)
1. But its okay for JD to make a trip to influence and interfere with Hungary's election
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 06:27 PM
21 hrs ago

How does that work???

B.See

(8,545 posts)
2. Really? Because SOME
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 06:36 PM
21 hrs ago

(of us) have long been warning about this, and other maga sabotage schemes re mail-in voting, changed post office rules on time stamping, illegal/unwarranted seizure of voter records and data...etc.

The whole of which often gets dismissed as excessive 'concern' and.or wholly impossible/unlikely because of something having to do with "gross usurpation of power" (or so we are told).

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