Article 78Q19 How Senate Democrats can stop Trump from stealing the midterms | David Walbert

How Senate Democrats can stop Trump from stealing the midterms | David Walbert

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David Walbert
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Republicans could lean on congressional procedure to defy the will of voters. But if they try that, the Senate has a clear way to fight back

Having lost his mail-in ballot case, Donald Trump will likely resort to ever more extreme ways to try to hold a Republican Congress in November's elections.

His last-ditch effort to count Joe Biden out in 2020 was for Republicans to investigate" states Biden narrowly won; proclaim fabricated allegations of stolen elections" to be true; and then reassign those states' electoral votes to Trump. I have previously described how that same playbook could be used to try to steal the midterms if a Democratic margin of victory in the House is relatively narrow.

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