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It’s looking like the plan is to push the Minnesota situation to the point where they can invoke the insurrection act and cancel the mid-term elections. Trump wasn’t joking, he 100% plans on canceling the elections.
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Anonymous 2w

I don’t see how he’s supposed to do that when the states and counties are the ones who run elections. What’s far more likely is they refuse to seat democratic members of the house, like they did for a while with Adelita Grijalva

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Anonymous 2w

I feel like you’re on the right path, but it’s definitely a bit short-sighted. He’s gonna use the justification in Minneapolis to deploy troops in cities around the country. He’ll also have ICE agents stationed at polling places, especially in swing counties and suburbs around cities. It’ll be to intimidate citizens under the guise of “we wanna make sure illegal immigrants don’t vote.” Since mail-ins are a natural progression to avoid this, he will scrutinize the results of the election.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2w

They won’t have the option to refuse seating new members, republicans are going to lose both chambers in a landslide, and they know it. That means Trump is getting impeached and possibly removed this time. They need a justification to cancel the elections, and they think an “insurrection” would do it. Trump wouldn’t have brought up canceling elections if they weren’t working on how to do it.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2w

Wait who swears the house members then? It’s not the current speaker?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2w

The only reason they held it up last time was the gov shutdown. Assuming they don’t straight up try to dissolve the legislature, which isn’t far fetched at this point, they won’t have the power to not swear them in.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2w

They had pro forma sessions during the shutdown though, and simply refused to swear her in during them

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2w

But the new speaker is chosen by the new majority party before the new congress starts, so they couldn’t pull that off again unless some Democrats go along with it.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2w

Ooooooh ok, I see. Thanks!

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2w

Yeah, the speaker is chosen through a caucus, not a legislative vote.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2w

I think the election scrutiny will end with him trying to overturn the results since there is NO way he’s gonna let go of that supermajority willingly

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2w

Definitely. The DOJ election observers will probably intimidate people as well

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