President Trump has called for his administration to nationalize voting before the 2026 midterm elections. Trump ally Steve Bannon said, “You’re damn right, we’re going to have ICE surround the polls come November.” Republicans, who champion states rights, should be outraged. This is blatantly unconstitutional.
Bannon echoed Trump’s lie that undocumented immigrants corrupt the polls, saying that only about 20% of real voters choose Democrats. This lie has been part of the Republicans’ rhetoric since 1994, the year after Democrats under President Bill Clinton passed the National Voter Registration Act which made it easier to register to vote. In 1994, Republicans accused Democrats of winning elections by turning to “illegal,” usually immigrant, voters.
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Republican candidates who lost in the 1994 midterm elections claimed that Democrats had won only through “voter…
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