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Trump Campaign aims to bypass election results in key swing states.

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Tahnit

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The Trump campaign is reportedly planning a way to bypass the 2020 election results in key swing states

Sources told The Atlantic that the Trump campaign was planning to install loyal electors in swing states with Republican-led legislatures.
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well this is fucking terrifying.

The Trump campaign is weighing a postelection strategy that would bypass the results in key swing states by installing electors who would vote for the president in the Electoral College even if he loses, The Atlantic reported. Using a rationale of baseless claims about widespread voter fraud and other irregularities with mail ballots, President Donald Trump "would ask state legislators to set aside the popular vote and exercise their power to choose a slate of electors directly," The Atlantic's Barton Gellman wrote, adding that "the longer Trump succeeds in keeping the vote count in doubt, the more pressure legislators will feel to act before the safe-harbor deadline expires."
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what the actual fuck? Can they actually do that? Is there any protection against this? If he manages to do this its over no matter how we vote. Godamnit
 
Protein

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Fuck around and find out. There will be mass protesting on a scale that hasn't been seen before if they screw with the results.
 
Noodle

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Businessinsider only does shoddy reposts of other outlet's articles designed for maximum clicks. Use a real outlet.
 
Lord Fanny

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Tahnit said:
www.businessinsider.com

The Trump campaign is reportedly planning a way to bypass the 2020 election results in key swing states

Sources told The Atlantic that the Trump campaign was planning to install loyal electors in swing states with Republican-led legislatures.
www.businessinsider.com www.businessinsider.com

well this is fucking terrifying.



what the actual fuck? Can they actually do that? Is there any protection against this? If he manages to do this its over no matter how we vote. Godamnit
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If I recall, the SC actually struck this down, about faithless electors or something? But I'm not 100% sure.

andymcc said:
isn't this just an abridged version of the Atlantic article that was shared yesterday?
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Believe so, yes.
 
entremet

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Noodle said:
Businessinsider only does shoddy reposts of other outlet's articles designed for maximum clicks. Use a real outlet.
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Exactly. They're just stealing The Atlantic reporting in this article. They content farm the big journalistic outlets--NYT, The Atlantic, WaPO, Vanity Fair.

I believe this was posted already.
 
Hey Please

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Guess I am going to ask again amidst all these bold proclamation of protests:

Hey Please said:
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What makes people think that anything will actually happen and be big enough to matter if Trump steals the election given Trump and GOP:
  • Have the support of cops whose ranks are replete with white supremacists and fascists
  • Have the support of military owing to sales of weapons to Saudis as well as Pentagon siphoning money meant for COVID related medical supplies into jet engines and armor without repercussion
  • Have the backing of corporate america owing to tax breaks for multi millionaires and billionaires
  • Have the support of energy sector given this admins promise to give them access to protected lands and decimation of EPA
  • Have the backing of private education sector given his admin supported redistribution of education funds towards unregulated charter schools
  • Have the support of bigots and neo-nazis most of who comprise of the greater portion of pie that possesses guns, armors and varying types of ammunitions
  • Are aided by campaign of misinformation via social media that the admin has embraced and weaponized
  • Have a state run news channel that is not exactly unpopular
Given how elections have been stolen in other countries recently and then settled into a new norm subsequent to great violence does not really inspire confidence unless, as an outsider, I am missing something
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Cup O' Tea?

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America is going to be Russia 2.0. I mean given how the oligarchy have utterly corrupted the government, they're already most of the way there. Compromised elections will be the final piece of the puzzle.
 
KtotheRoc

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His fucking cult claim to be patriots while supporting a goddamn wannabe dictator.
 
Kernel

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He's playing to his base. They think he's invincible and liberals being scared just feeds into that.
 
Noodle

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Hey Please said:
Guess I am going to ask again amidst all these bold proclamation of protests:
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AkumaNiko

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Ya this is 100% a scare tactic. He's trying to get anyone not voting for him to lose enough hope to not bother voting
 

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He is going to do anything to stay in power, and the people behind him are intelligent enough to find loopholes in the gentlemen's agreements. The ones purposely never closed in the past to keep white slave owners in power. All of that 'no matter what happens if he loses, January he's out' is assuming so much that so far has proven to be blatantly untrue. He can continue commit crimes because there is literally no one to stop him. No one.
 
Slayven

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The Election That Could Break America News

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/what-if-trump-refuses-concede/616424/ This part is particularly terrifying. I'm very, very concerned. They have a roadmap for a legal and constitutional theft of the election. There is absolutely no doubt that they will claim irregularities...
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