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How MAGA Plans To Steal The Midterms
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25:17Now PlayingTrump is not even trying to hide it anymore. The strategy for the midterms is to meddle with voting as much as possible. Ari Berman from Mother Jones joined Francesca to talk about what exactly that plan looks like midterms, 2028, and beyond.
Trump has reached historical unpopularity in his second term. The affordability crisis continues to escalate, we launched a war with Iran that nobody wanted, and blueberries can kill us now. Trump has done nothing to try and convince voters that he cares about any; he is acting as though he can do anything he wants and Republicans will win the midterms anyway.
This begs the question: what is the plan to win? We already know that the Supreme Court effectively gutted the Voting Rights Act, prioritizing partisan gerrymandering protections over minority voting rights. Then, there are attacks on vote by mail — which Trump just used himself in the recent Florida primaries. Plus, there’s the doomed Save Act which Trump keeps pushing and the possibility of ICE at the polls. Clearly voter suppression is the name of the game.
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