You don’t need to be an expert in electoral politics to understand Rule One of any campaign: Candidates should pursue as many votes as possible. In a democracy, it’s common sense: The more votes a campaign has, the greater the chance of success.
With this in mind, Donald Trump appears to have a counterintuitive rhetorical habit. The New Republic noted:
On Fox News Thursday morning, Donald Trump had a weird instruction for his supporters: they don’t have to vote. “My instruction: We don’t need the votes, I have so many votes,” Trump said on Fox & Friends before going on a rant about how much support he has in Florida.
As a clip from the show makes clear, the former president didn’t appear to be kidding: https://x.com/atrupar/status/1816482779581775943
If the phrasing sounded at all familiar, it’s not your imagination. The day after last month’s presidential debate, for example, Trump held a rally in Virginia and told attendees, “We don’t need votes.”
“We don’t need the votes because we’re going to call this election rigged and stolen just like the last one. We’re going to challenge the legitimacy of Harris as a candidate and draw out the election results in court for years. Hopefully we’ll get it to the supreme court where my lackies will nullify the results and declare me leader. At the same time, we’ll call for more violence against our enemies and try to incite a full blown civil war because I’m a narcissistic man-child who can’t accept that I could be wrong and lose.”
So then what’s he waiting for? If he doesn’t need votes then he doesn’t need an election. If his plan is to seize power without voting or going through the electoral process then there is no point waiting for an election. If that’s the case then what’s he waiting on? Sounds like bullshit to me.
He’s going to attack the capital. Again.
Attacking capital is great, it’s attacking capitols I have a problem with
Right you are Ken
I understand that reference.
i do not :(
It’s from MXC, a hilarious television show from the early 2000’s.
Get rekt, Jackson!
Last time they only got in because Trump stopped the security forces from doing their job. This time it will be different.
Way harder to do when you aren’t the sitting president
Attacking the capital was a last-ditch hail mary move, and only viable when he controlled the military.
They’re going to use baseless conspiracies to try to fuck with the election certification enough (with an assist from the courts) to force a contingent election in the House, where they’ll likely have a majority of state delegations.
The whole Republicans house is in on it again. They have a multi-prong plan to seize the White House, from voter suppression to elector rigging, gerrymandering and outright violent intimidation. The coup will be much better planned this time.
Yeah, but if you know that then certainly the current administration knows that.
Last I checked Biden still controlled the NSA, CIA, and FBI.
Do y’all really thing something being “legal” is all it takes?
Well, that’s terrifying
Love to see the face of Jan 6 2.0 rioters, when they realized someone in power actually wants to stop them this time
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He’s going to attack the
capitalelectoral process. Again.This is why Democrats are saying the need to win overwhelmingly
Because the fix is in with the Republican state legislatures and Republican Governors
It’s gonna be 2001 again unless Harris can really knock it out of the park
Only this time tRump owns the supreme Court
This is my take too. Whole country votes solidly blue but the SC crowns Trump king anyways.
I don’t think they can do that, but I don’t doubt they’ll try
Trump has done literally hundreds of things he “can’t” do and only one person has come anywhere close to stopping him.
What are we gonna do, harangue each other about it? Easy there, we don’t disagree about anything. This is serious.
Merely voting is minimal effort. Last election I sent dozens of “vote forward” letters across the country. Will you?
The 💰$upremacy Court💰
It ain’t like the Supreme Court did the right thing then either, Roger fucking Stone was tied up in that shit too
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If you have any questions or comments about me, you can make a post to LW Support lemmy community.Trump is planning a violent overthrow of the nation in my opinion. Perhaps they have a kill calculator app that they are relying on, or police databases filled with phony reports on people they have marked to be killed.
whichever.
Because he’s counting on not having, or needing, the votes to win. His plan is to call the Election rigged, get Mike Johnson to refuse to certify the results, throw the election. Being “So confident” that he has more than enough votes to win, and then showing election results that have him way behind Harris, will just feed his narrative of a rigged election. He’ll go on about how a disparity like that isn’t possible, Johnson will parrot the same shit, opening a process that is much more unclear to certify a different result.
Trump is laying the groundwork for an election loss, sewing seeds of doubt that he could lose my any margin, much less a big one. When the results come in, the bigger the landslide against him, the louder his screeching that it was obviously rigged.
Overconfidence, ignorance, and the knowledge of the shady crap the GOP is doing behind the scenes to suppress votes and rig things. Those together with narcissism means he has to brag but can’t reveal why he is so confident.
Sowing seeds of violence.
One aspect of the fake elector scheme was to block the counting of rightfully assigned electoral college votes.
If they can successfully do that in enough states to prevent either candidate from getting 270, then it goes to the House of Representatives to select the president.
Each state gets one vote, and since there are only 19 states with Democratic controlled legislatures, that would guarantee a Trump win, no voting necessary.
They managed to shore this one up after Jan 6. Now, instead of just needing a single Representative and Senator to challenge a vote, you need 1/5 of each body.
So an improvement, no doubt Election Denialers have more schemes in mind though.
Even at 1/5th of each body… 88 Congressmen and 20 Senators… The Republicans have that, 220 and 50.
Maybe it’s his feeble attempt at reverse psychology? It’s probably something more nefarious but we must account for stupidity
I’m betting his aids keep saying they need votes and his ego is saying it’s impossible.
One good thing about this era we find ourselves in is the growing understanding that the rich and powerful aren’t smart or good in any way. As soon as all of us realize this, the sooner we can achieve a world run by those that are intelligent and interested in actually running things properly.
The problem with that is that most of the poor are not really smart either. On average we’re a pretty dumb species.
That second part is a bit ambitious.
As they say, aim for the moon… And if you miss…I guess you get to enjoy the immensity of the universe? Optimism might be foolish but here we are narrowly avoiding authoritarian control day by day. So that’s at least something
He is dumb
Because he wants to become a dictator for life
What little life he has left. I’ll never understand how people get to that age and are still behaving like they’re going to live forever. If someone has a forward-looking sense of duty that motivates them to make a better future for others I understand that, but Trump is clearly just in it for himself so I don’t really understand the motivation if it’s not just straight up denial of his own mortality.
The end is right around the corner for old Dumpy, you’d think he’d want to spend it sitting on a beach drinking pina coladas that he got other people to pay for.
Some Narcissists can’t believe the world can go on without them, that death can even be a thing for them
It’s all about the attention for him, and the get out of jail free card.
He didn’t care for the look of needing just 11,780 votes, so he doesn’t need any.
Because he wants to be a dictator, why is this a question?
“Why does a fascist say fascist things??”
If there’s one thing magats have right it’s that Donnie tells it like he sees it. The reason he doesn’t need votes is because he thinks he can steal the election. It’s pretty simple when you don’t look too deep and with him you never should.
