Top House Democrat says president’s suggestion for Republicans to ‘take over’ elections really means ‘steal it’
Democrats will stop Donald Trump from trying to steal this year’s midterm elections, Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic leader in the US House of Representatives said on Sunday.
Jeffries’ comments come amid widespread concern after Trump said Republicans should “take over the voting”. The US constitution gives states the power to set election rules and says Congress can pass laws to set requirements for federal elections. The constitution gives the president no authority over how elections are run.
“What Donald Trump wants to do is try and nationalize the election – translation: steal it. And we’re not going to let it happen,” Jeffries said during an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union. He added that Democrats so far had successfully blocked Trump’s efforts to federalize the national guard countered a nationwide push by Republicans to redraw congressional district boundaries to their advantage.
A strongly worded letter?
Put schumer in a nursing home.
Send his ass to Israel since he loves it so much. Never seen him more animated than when he’s on his knees for em.
Weeks later after a bunch of headlines and sound bites… “Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer has agreed to Trump’s federal take over of mid term elections. In return republicans have agreed to pinky promise that the election will be fair and to walk by a room that has the latest proposal on extending ACA benefits.”
the same democrats who have stopped…ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOTHING?
That’s not true.
They stopped the budget that enabled the murders of Luis Gustavo Núñez Cáceres, Geraldo Lunas Campos, Víctor Manuel Díaz, Parady La, Renee Nicole Good, Luis Beltrán Yáñez–Cruz, Heber Sánchez Domínguez and Alex Pretti. From not NOT passing.
Just like they ‘didn’t let’ the GOP cut Medicare benefits by caving during the last shutdown? Oh wait…
Nationalizing the US elections would require amending the Constitution to take that power back from the States, which would require a Constitutional Convention, which would require either a 2/3 majority vote in the House AND Senate OR a call for a convention by 2/3rds of the State legislatures.
None of those dingbats are willing to waste that much time and effort just to shoot themselves in the ass. And Trump can’t just “Hereby Doo Dee-clare” it.
Soooooo go on MSNBC and say “Hell no” and “over my dead body!”
And then Jon Stewart smash-cuts to a report revealing you actually voted “Yes”? Like always happens? Cool great awesome
Well, that confirms Trump is going to successfully nationalize the midterms.
(To be clear: we need to fight this every step of the way…)
Haha! Yeah, sure.
Just like they stopped the child rapist from doing all that other criminally evil shit last week/month/year?Hey, Dems, you should really try to keep your controlled opposition performance at least somewhat believable. If you guys try to overstep your boundaries daddy tRUMP will bitch slap you.
Schumer is typing up that stern letter as we speak
That decrepit, useless old bastard needs to be put out to pasture.
The party will replace him with someone that protects the status quo like he does, the exact same way they did in the House by replacing Pelosi with a black Pelosi.
I know, but that won’t stop me from bitching about it.
