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Thursday, August 1, 2024

Maddow: What Trump means when he says We don’t need your votes. Are Democrats prepared?

“Officials have been put in place in several states to make sure election results, no matter what they are, do not get certified in those states this year." 

(AI generated transcript slightly edited for readability from video “Maddow points out frightening truth about Trump's lack of concern about votes” linked below)

TRANSCRIPT Starts at 3:20 :

Maddow: Let me point out something more strange, which has been happening and it hasn't had much attention. Telling voters do not bother to vote for me, it doesn't matter if you do, I don't need your votes- that is a thing that could prick up your ears.

Because what that means is Trump doesn't think he needs to win the vote to win the election. He doesn't think he needs to win the election in order to take power. He thinks something other than votes is going to determine whether or not he gets back in the White House.

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Trump doesn't think he needs to win the election in order to take power. He thinks something other than votes is going to determine whether or not he gets back in the White House.

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At Rolling Stone today [July 29 2024], they profile different election officials who have been put into position in the swing states of Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, who are election denialists, committed election denialists. Officials have been put in place in all of those states to make sure that election results, no matter what they are, do not get certified in those states this year.

Quote, at least 22 of these election officials have already refused or delayed certification processes in recent elections, according to Democratic Election Lawyer Marc Elias, quote, I think we are going to see mass refusals to certify the election in November, unquote.

Republicans are counting on not just that they can disrupt the election in big counties, they're counting on the fact that if they don't certify in several small counties, you can't certify statewide results, with 70 officials in place across just the swing states.

For all the surface level weird behavior and language and strange choices and incoherent and odd donors in the Republican campaign, the serious core at the heart of it is that they're not planning on the vote being counted as normal.

They're not counting on the election results being tallied as normal.

They're not counting on the vote.

And in fact Trump is now repeatedly saying the vote will not matter. He doesn't even want your vote. The Republicans are counting on the election results not being certified, thereby creating chaos in Washington around the results. Just like 2020, right?

Just like January 6th, 2021, except this time with no Mike Pence in the way and with Republican officials already in place in multiple states saying yeah.

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Like January 6th, 2021, except this time with no Mike Pence in the way

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We may not get any sort of official vote.

The weirdness of this campaign is astonishing days out. The dislocation from real campaigning, though, the dislocation from actually asking people for their votes, that means something. It means they are not trying to win this thing in a normal way.

So days out, as democrats stand up what by all accounts looks like a juggernaut traditional campaign under Kamala Harris, are they prepared for this?

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