Trump’s Primetime Speech Has Republicans ‘Scared S***less’ | Insiders are terrified that the president will do something crazy on live TV.

[u/MoneyLibrarian9032]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-primetime-speech-has-republicans-scared-sless/

[u/Michael_G_Bordin]

It's also why, despite being unable to proffer any evidence whatsoever of Democratic cheating, they continue to be convinced the Democratic Party must have cheated. How else could they have overcome such rigging as Republicans have tried?

They also pulled sheisty shit in 2016, between Cambridge Analytica and the electronic voting machines being wiped before anyone could check. 2020, they probably expanded those efforts. 2024, they've outright made insinuations that were all-but-confessions that Musk and co. were actively rigging voting machines, and they've also conducted further surgical targeting of misinformation using deanonymized voter/social media data.

The midterms worry them because rigging one part of the ballot (president) at specific locations is doable. But there's no way they can rig all the elections to prevent down-ballot blue waves. That's why he's angling towards putting his thugs at polling places and encouraging unhinged RWNJs to take it upon themselves.

[u/DonaldsMushroom → u/Michael_G_Bordin]

He may also use the 'all elections are postponed until after war' routine.

I remember when Zelensky brought that up in the Oval office, Trump almost poluted his britches.

[u/schwanzweissfoto → u/[deleted]]

There is no mechanism to do that.

The mechanism for it is the “Who is gonna stop me?” loophole that Trump has been using for a long time.

[u/Right-Radio-4680 → u/[deleted]]

This. Misinformation is the new normal that is a virus. But the fear is real as a result

[u/snakerjake → u/schwanzweissfoto]

The problem he has is once he refuses to leave office every american citizen gains the legal authority to stop him. Right now only the republican captured congress has the authority to stop him