Trump has said that the United States shouldn’t have midterm elections this year because midterm voters often vote against the president’s party. Democratic congressional leaders have said they expect Trump to disrupt and dispute the midterms.

“It’s some deep psychological thing, but when you win the presidency, you don’t win the midterms,” Trump told Reuters in a recent interview. He then boasted that his presidency had accomplished so much that “when you think about it, we shouldn’t even have an election.”

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told the Associated Press that Democrats are concerned that Trump will try to prevent open and fair midterm elections.

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[–] 159 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Yesterday he joked about it. Today he says it. Tomorrow he does it.

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  • [–] 90 points 9 months ago (27 children)

    The US shouldn't have a convicted felon in the oval, but here we are.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (26 children)

    Well, more than half of america voted for this, or allowed it to happen, so....

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (12 children)

    You are wrong. ~23% of Americans voted for Trump. The problem is that a shit ton of people sat out.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    Those people can either be classified as "don't exist" because they actively wiped out their own influence, or "as bad as the Republicans", because they were comfortable allowing it to happen, but they certainly CAN'T be classified as "magic absolution of the American public as a whole for this series of events."

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    You knew they would not vote for only I am not the other guy, yet you jamned a status quo politician and platform down their throats. Not being popular, trying not to be popular. NOT offering any real reform, not calling out interests cheating us and promising to fix things.

    You knew that was not enough, and or america did not know what republicans are, yet you shouted down calls for a new deal, deferred to ivy league party leaders.

    So the fault lies with you, first and foremost, I bring it up because those same tools of donors still control the opposition, for perhaps our last chance to take the country back, in 2028, in the succession fight, before elections are fixed beyond recovery. And it already will be fixed your establishment types cannot take it back, and if they did would do nothing and hand it right back.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    True, true... But you also can't classify them as voting for trump.

    Maybe it the comment should say said, "more than half of America didn't vote against this".

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I don't understand. Do you people not understand the words "or" and "allow"? Like, what the fuck.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    I am OP and am stunned that, as you've correctly stated, that this is what it boils down to. Fuck em. People are stupid. On BOTH sides of the political argument. One side is determined to burn it all to ashes for personal gain while the other side refuses to even try to use the tools afforded to them as constitutional rights to stop them, until things are absolutely to their liking. Nothing is ever their fault, and only their world view is valid. No other explanation matters as long as they get to puff their virtue. And score internet points.

    Wtf. Theres a moron in charge actively destroying their civil rights and the voters sit it out because of some issue du jour caught their eye and 'nobody could be that stupid to vote for him a second time'. Then blame the politicians for a choice they chose to make. Suure... The funders, lobbyists, complicit media, broken system and corrupt politicians twisted their arm and gave them... Gasp... No choice! Im stupid dissapointed to have to share air with these dolts. They deserve every one of the next three years.

    Seriously, both groups are narcissistic assholes. Im starting to see trump everywhere in this debate. The rest of us are fucked.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I hate defending non-voters, but a large number of people are unable to vote or aren't well informed enough to know what's going on. In the former camp, there are lots of people who can't get to the polls because voting day isn't a holiday or because there aren't enough polling locations in their area, or because they are sick, etc. etc. Most of the time politicians actively work to make it harder to vote.

    Of course you can feel however you'd like about the latter camp, but being uninformed is also being encouraged. People are often undereducated. Some people just don't consume news. I'd be willing to bet there are some people who didn't know an election was going on and some who couldn't name the president.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Fuck off. That's not a fucking excuse at this point. A third of the population allowed this to happen. The end.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    This is the exact sort of response I expected.

    My point here is that there is a lot of class struggle that actively works to prevent individuals from voting. Putting the blame just on those people misses the mark and will not fix things.

    Take one example. Some people get to make a choice. Take time off of work, stand in line for literal hours, and try to vote or feed their family today. Is the solution to blame the individual or to address how fucked up the system is that prevents them from voting?

    Yes, there are idiots who could have voted, but didn't. They deserve derision. But, if we don't identify that voter suppression is real, if we place the responsibility on people entirely, we play directly into the hands of those who don't want people voting.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    If there is an overhauled American democracy someday, it will be important to mandate vacations for workers during the voting window. That, among other measures, will be needed to safeguard the future from fascism.

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  • [+] -19 points 9 months ago (12 children)

    No American voted to have their elections dismantled

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  • [–] 43 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

    BS. Anyone that voted for Trump in 2024 voted to have our elections dismantled. He was open about his intentions.

    "Get out and vote! Just this time. You won't have to do it anymore! Four more years, you know what? It'll be fixed, it'll be fine, you won't have to vote anymore." - Donald Trump, July 26th, 2024

    Source - "Trump tells Christians they won't have to vote after this election" Reuters July 27th, 2024

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Tbf, his opponent happened to have a weird laugh!

    /s

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    And she reservedly supported some bad policies that Trump supported whole-heartedly! They had to let Trump win to send a message!

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    'My hands were tied! I know trump bad, but the options were not perfect! Both sides are funded by the same capitalist interests! She even said 'no deviation'! The dems owed me as a voter, to field a candidate that matches my ideal of what a candidate should be! Adulting is hard!'

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Everyone single fuckhead looser that voted red voted for this. For fucks sake Trump even said at a rally for "Christian" votes if they would vote for him this time it would be the last time they had to vote.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Well, its in the history books now: more than half of them thought otherwise. I suppose you're right in that apparently the other group dont love their country enough to get off their privileged asses to exercise their right to vote and therefore can't be considered 'american' enuff for you. Oh well.

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  • [–] 60 points 9 months ago

    I really don't give a fuck what this asshole wants.

    His very existence in that office is illegal and immoral.

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  • [–] 52 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Democrats are concerned. Ahh yes, just concerned. The silence from Dems has been disgusting

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    Democrats love having trump. They can lower thier standards lower then ever and they feel the voters will be forced to vote for them. Being forced to vote for someone sound like democracy to you?

    Normally I would link electoral reform videos, but that time has passed.

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  • [–] 103 points 9 months ago (14 children)

    So the reason he's come up with is literally just he thinks he'll lose?

    That's a very good reason for there to be an election, Donny

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  • [–] 22 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    "Democracy" is too close to "Democrat" in his pee brain and kinda short-circuits.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Correct. He conflates political asylum with mental asylum. He’s unbelievably unfathomably dumb.

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  • [+] -15 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    No way. The dem votera will just find another distraction/ excuse to sit it out and he'll get his third term. Calling it now.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    He'll get his third term in the midterm election?

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    If they sit it out again, whos gonna stop him?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    By definition, midterm elections are not Presidential elections. Trump's third term, if he had one, would start in 2029 after an election in 2028.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    If the voters dont help the opposition make gains and the republicans (read: trump) retain control of congress and the senate, whats to stop him/ them from changing the rules and locking him in come 2028? Seriously? You people dont see the importance of this midterm vote in the longer tern, and want to argue about definitions? He even said he'd do it. Remind you of any previous elections?

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  • [–] 44 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I'm sure trump is going to call for the mid-terms elections to be cancelled. We'll still have them, but it will give cover for gerrymandered red-states to reduce their efforts to make voting available and visible to their citizen.

    If the elections go south for Republicans, I fully expect Mike Johnson to play games with allowing Democrats to be sworn in and seated in Congress. We really need to be preparing for both of these scenarios.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    He will declare that Dems cheated everywhere they win, and if the House tries anything, he will declare they are traitors and declare state of emergency claiming absolute power (or whatever other made up shit).

    Time to count who sides with whom in the military…

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    [–] 42 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Some people escaped dictatorships... only to end up here... 🫠

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  • [–] 84 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

    I dunno, Biden performed better than expected and he's a sleepy old guy. Is trump saying he's no better than a sleepy old guy?

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Better than expected? You expected less than 40 pc approval for 3 years, then forcing an unwinnable candidate and strategy for make or break 24 elections?

    Just, wow. No wonder "we" lost. You are as delusional as republicans clearly nothing will free you from your influencers leading you astray.

    Popular reform is the only path out of the abyss, and it is so much more of a trecherous path now than 2024.

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  • [–] 38 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Jeez. Forget going mask-off. This asshole just did the equivalent of walking in the room naked.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    It's like that airplane interview when Lindsay Graham is like "we gotta help the people of venuezala", then Trump goes straight back to rambling about oil when Lindsay is trying to smooth trumps deranged babbling over.

    He's a terrible liar, has no idea how to cover things properly.

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  • [–] 36 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    "Trump has said that the United States shouldn’t have midterm elections this year because midterm voters often vote against the president’s party."

    Yeah, that's why it's called VOTING.

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  • [–] 35 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    He already said before that if the Republicans lose the mid terms, and they would, they will, he would be jailed

    He's right

    And he will be.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Much as I'd love for that to happen, assuming there are free and fair elections at all: I have a feeling the first words out of the Democratic leadership after winning will be "it's time for healing and to move forward" (or words to that effect)

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  • [–] 26 points 9 months ago

    Well, he said you'd only need to vote the one time.

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  • [–] 26 points 9 months ago

    Wow it's almost as though midterms represent some kind of check and balance. Trump and the republicans stand a good chance of being wiped out.

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    California is working to prevent any candidate that violates the constitution from being on the ballot

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  • [–] 22 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    🐝 lot cooler if that happened prior to ‘24 instead of it going the way it did…

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I mean Colorado did try to have him removed off the ballot. The Supreme Court said they can't do that.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/04/trump-scotus-colorado-ruling

    So yea, people did try.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago*

    Biden and Merrick Garland sure as fuck didn't.

    Not a single charge brought in four years.

    Trump literally could have been in a prison cell on November 6 as Harris won in a fucking landslide against some rando dickhole neocon.

    And even today oligarch-loving Democrat leadership won't even consider abolishing ICE if they win.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Colorado tried that already and the SCOTUS ran interference for the criminal felon Trump.

    So unfortunately, anything that California does now in that regard is performative, as there is now legal precedent that the sitting president can incite a mob through stochastic terrorism to overthrow the government if they lose the election.

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago

    Shouldn’t have a felonious, rapist, racist, seditious, stochastic terrorist pedophile as president either, but here we are.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago

    US shouldn't have a president

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago

    I vote we throw Shitler, the turd Reich and every politician who takes money from Israel into a woodchipper and start over

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago* (7 children)

    There's only one way this idiot will ever shut the fuck up. Do it, somebody, please!

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    They won't. Muricans are all talk and it's become obvious the 2A crowd are mostly MAGA.
    Plus i'd wager quite a large chunk is still in denial, writing stern comments, still hoping they'll fix it in the next election that won't come.
    ICE would have to do a lot more damage for a critical mass to wake up, it'll take years.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    And put Vance into office? I somehow feel that would be worse.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Trump has the MAGA voters in his pocket, noone else does, so he is automatically top dog among the Republicans. If Vance took over the Republican party would become a free-for-all of backstabbing when everybody tries to become the new top dog, because Vance definitely isn't it.

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Trump says a lot of stupid shit.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago

    I bet he does.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago

    Gosh, if only we'd known what he was like before all this happened.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago

    Fuck off Shitler. I'm gonna vote even harder now!

    (dark pen and a very assertive shove into the dropbox)

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