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SheltieLover

(59,459 posts)
Wed Sep 18, 2024, 10:04 AM Sep 18

This article is more than 4 years old Trump says Republicans would 'never' be elected again if it was easier to vote

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/30/trump-republican-party-voting-reform-coronavirus

This is a very old article, but I wish Kamala's team would use this in an ad, or maybe someone organization make a billboard or something.

I truly believe this is the ONLY honest thing tfg has ever said.

Sam Levine
Mon 30 Mar 2020 14.32 EDT

Donald Trump admitted on Monday that making it easier to vote in America would hurt the Republican party.

The president made the comments as he dismissed a Democratic-led push for reforms such as vote-by-mail, same-day registration and early voting as states seek to safely run elections amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Democrats had proposed the measures as part of the coronavirus stimulus. They ultimately were not included in the $2.2tn final package, which included only $400m to states to help them run elections.

“The things they had in there were crazy. They had things, levels of voting that if you’d ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again,” Trump said during an appearance on Fox & Friends. “They had things in there about election days and what you do and all sorts of clawbacks. They had things that were just totally crazy and had nothing to do with workers that lost their jobs and companies that we have to save.”

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“I don’t want everybody to vote,” Paul Weyrich, an influential conservative activist, said in 1980. “As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.”
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