President Trump’s extraordinary comments were the latest iteration of his unsubstantiated claims that U.S. elections are rigged as Republicans face potentially big losses this fall.

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    He is afraid that a free and democratic vote will end his reign, and potentially put him behind bars. He can’t afford the luxury of democracy with that prospect.

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      Not really. More that they’re trying to influence state officials (who actually run elections in the US) into doing their bidding.

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    Republicans aren’t walking back anything. They are losing the ability to keep Trump on script.

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      This is it exactly. More and more he’s sounding like the Trump we heard from January 2nd, 2021 asking Brad Raffensperger to “find” exactly the amount of votes needed to overturn the Georgia election results.

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      They are telling him to STFU. They want to be able to do it in secret but he keeps spilling the beans

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    He isn’t calling for the federal government to nationalize the vote, he’s calling for the Republican Party to nationalize the vote.

    They get it right in the opening of the article but not the headline.

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      Especially given that he once again is calling for America to “move on” from the Epstein files… I find it a bit weird there is nothing about that here on Lemmy