Remember, he stole the 2016 election by playing the game and campaigning in states he need to win, but, he has a dastardly plan for 2020! So says Jason Sattler at the USA Today
Trump has a plan to steal the election and it’s not clear Democrats have a plan to stop him
My only wish for the 2020 election was that it not turn out to be anything like the disaster that was 2016. Yet as we head into the Democratic National Convention, we’ve already seen almost everything that made our last presidential cycle a nightmare — and worse.
There are the ceaseless Russian attacks on democracy on behalf of President Donald Trump. But this time, instead of WikiLeaks, the disinformation is being laundered into our political system through House and Senate Republicans.
There is Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns. But now the Supreme Court has made sure taxpayers will not see these documents until after the election. That’s even after Trump has spent hundreds of millions in public funds and about a fourth of his presidency acting as Ronald McDonald with a putter, hawking his own businesses while running a Washington, D.C., hotel that’s more like a vacuum sucking up cash from supplicants and favor seekers.
Still can’t get over the fake Russia Russia Russia stuff, eh? Nor the tax thing, eh?
Closest we’ve ever been to dictatorship
There is the voter suppression. But instead of just preventing voting in key states with needless ballot restrictions, the Trump campaign is fighting all efforts to make voting in the middle of pandemic easier and safer, including hobbling the U.S. Postal Service and increasing the cost of mail-in voting. And the president isn’t even hiding his goal — preventing voting by mail (probably so he can claim victory on election night regardless of the eventual results).
Uh huh. Closest to a dictatorship by a guy….who’s trying to reduce government dominance over the Citizens. I’m sure there must be some argument that he’s trying to steal the election, right?
And there’s the inflation of third-party candidates to help Trump have a chance to slip through the Electoral College, though he has no chance of ever getting near 50% of the popular vote. But this time, Republican operatives are actually trying to Mickey Mouse Kanye West onto the ballot, with bogus signatures in some cases, in an effort to hurt Joe Biden.
So, typical political tricks. And that is it. There are 11 more paragraphs, and none lay out any case that Trump is going to try to steal the election. Just whines about Trump. But, the headline is the point. People will cruise by it on news aggregation sites, won’t read it, but will remember the headline, and parrot it.
