GOP lawmaker: Making it harder to vote 'is our opportunity to win'
GOP lawmaker: Making it harder to vote 'is our opportunity to win'
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GOP lawmaker: Making it harder to vote 'is our opportunity to win'
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When your policies aren't popular, cheat. -Repubs
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The republican traitor filth must be forced to a reckoning.
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Anyone still thinks sitting out the midterms is a good idea? They're all idiots. Welcome to the find out phase.
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I'm guessing not, but have they done research to confirm more conservatives will have their documentation than liberals? Cuz... That could backfire.
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It's not "liberals" they're targeting with these sorts of tactics, per se, but poor and minority populations, who tend to vote blue out of self-defence. Of course, many of these laws are also applied unequally within states, such as the recent raids of Latino voter organizations in Texas.
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"And secure the election and jam the Senate". It sounds like the guy thinks they'll will the presidency if they force a shutdown. Has that worked, like, ever?
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At least these guys are saying the quiet parts out loud, now.
Just to clarify, Trump started and enabled the "talking out loud" part of many subjects, not the idea that making voting harder for some demographics helps Republicans. That's been a decades long thing, about as long as the big switch of parties. It's part of what drove "Eisenhower Republicans" to be life long Democrats.
Not exactly in this case. The title is framing his comments as being about making it hard to vote. While that's absolutely what the bill he's talking about will do, he isn't presenting it that way. He's saying that the SAVE act will "secure" the election and that the strategy of forcing it through by tying it to government funding will be a winning one for Republicans. Both these statements are false (voters don't like government shut downs), but that's still his argument.
The quiet part is still quiet here, because you have to already know that the bill he's pushing is about voter suppression, not election integrity.