Posted on 03/03/2021 8:50:05 AM PST by Kaslin
After 40 days offstage, Donald Trump returned to the national spotlight on Sunday, and not a moment too soon. His rip-roaring, 90-minute address to CPAC covered many familiar themes, building to a new conclusion that “one of the most urgent issues facing the Republican party is that of ensuring fair, honest, and secure elections.”
Trump’s clarion call could not be more timely, as Nancy Pelosi’s Congress is set to pass a bill that would enshrine Democrat ballot stuffing into federal law forever. Among its many bad ideas, H.R. 1 would require automatic and same-day voter registration, prohibit voter ID, forbid signature matching, and require every state to accept mail-in ballots arriving 10 days late.
“We need one election day,” Trump pushed back, “not 45, not 30, one day. And the only people that should be allowed to vote by mail are people that can be proven to be either very sick, or out of the country, or military where they can’t do it. One day,” he repeated.
The kicker was that Trump is not merely begging Republicans to address the many irregularities that occurred in the presidential election. He is warning that Republicans who fail to act on this issue will face defeat in their primaries next year.
Trump recounted how successful he has been in electing candidates who support his agenda and defeating Republicans who stand in the way of making America great again. He even called out by name Trump-haters within the Republican Party who need to start looking for a second career after politics.
Two days before Trump spoke, liberal pundit Bill Maher warned his fellow lefties what was in store for them: “The shark is not gone. We need a bigger boat.”
No boat is big enough to salvage the careers of Republicans who tried to impeach Trump, or who stand in the way of reforms to fix what went wrong in 2020. Those Republicans have not only defied Trump; they never lifted a finger to protect the integrity of our elections.
Instead, they echo false Democrat talking points by pretending there was no evidence of election fraud in 2020. These anti-Trump Republicans likewise fail to see how strongly opposed they are now by Americans who once voted for them.
On Monday, Georgia House Republicans finally got the message, despite being inactive the past few months. After kicking away the presidential election and two U.S. Senate seats, state representatives passed a bill for election integrity by a party-line vote of 97 to 72.
The Georgia House bill still allows extensive mail-in voting and is weaker than a Senate version that would properly curtail that absentee voting. In the recent elections there, no meaningful identification was required for millions of mail-in votes, unrequested ballots were sent out, and ballot drop boxes were placed at unsecure locations.
Voting was done on multiple Sundays prior to an election, with mobile voting buses to herd Democrat voters to cast ballots under the watchful eyes of the political bosses who rounded them up. Private liberal organizations were allowed to fund elections there.
Republicans have long commanded most state legislatures, yet have not done enough to reduce election fraud. Between 2016 and 2020 Pennsylvania and other Republican state legislatures invited even more fraud by expanding mail-in voting.
The thunderous applause which greeted Trump on Sunday as he made election integrity the top priority for our country puts every Republican on notice: stand in the way, and risk losing your own primary next year.
Trump’s specific proposals included ending early and most mail-in voting, as Phyllis Schlafly also called for years ago. For too long Republican politicians have shrugged their shoulders and refused to stop the flood of insecure, harvested ballots that cancel the legitimate votes cast in person on Election Day.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, which could decide whether states can clean up their elections without being enjoined by activist courts. In past cases, federal courts have blocked election reforms on the pretext that proper procedures somehow have a disparate impact on minority voters.
The questioning by Justices at the hearing went well for the side of election integrity. Liberals mischaracterize this landmark case as putting “civil rights” at risk if states are allowed to ban ballot harvesting, by which political operatives collect thousands of ballots from people who do not show up to vote in person.
The only civil right at issue in election reform is that of all Americans to an honest vote count. We are long past the time for lip service, and Republicans who obstruct cleaning up the election process should expect a strong upcoming primary challenge by a Trump-endorsed opponent.
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In person voting only. (With limired exceptions)
Must show ID.
Of course, he should have been on this four years ago. But there’s only a point to his campaign apparatus and support, after having let the 2018 and 2020 elections be massively stolen, if it is quickly and seriously applied to getting the local changes needed to have free elections in the future.
Lip service, of course, is not nearly enough.
Trump should announce a secret project then ,et it slip that he is creating his own voting machines which will be used nationwide in the next elections. Just to troll the left
“Election Integrity” is to Demonicrats like sunlight is to vampires.
Pelosi is a demented devil worshipper who is drunk with power and totally disconnected from the working class. She chews out anyone who dares to question her.
This won’t stop until the enemy regime who took over DC is eradicated.
Just read a most intriguing post on Telegram that President Trump could run for Congress from Florida next year, then be elected Speaker of the House and immediately proceed with IMPEACHMENT articles against BOTH Biden & Harris . . .
Then, Voila, thanks to being third in line in succession, resume his duties as POTUS!!!
He would still be eligible to run again for a full term in 2024!!
Wow, I LOVE MERELY CONTEMPLATING HOW GLORIOUS THIS SCENARIO WOULD BE TO COMMENCE TO SAVING AMERICA AT THE EARLIEST OPPORTUNITY!
Of course, he should have been on this four years ago.
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Don’t put this on Trump. The storm clouds have been on the horizon for a long time now and the Republican Party should have been pushing hard to prevent vote fraud. But they didn’t do squat.
There was plenty of time to act. They simply didn’t care, and they were especially not inclined to do anything that might help Trump win another term.
I blame the GOP, not Trump. We asked way too much of one man IMO. He gets a pass on this one.
Absolutely.
The call should be to arrest the people who perpetrated the Steal.
Benson, Boockvar, Raffensperger, Whitmer, Wolf, LaFollette, Abrams...the perps are well known.
How many of them have been investigated by a Grand Jury? Deposed in a courtroom?
These people throw teenagers in jails for swiping a candy bar. But they just committed multiple felonies against the very people they were supposed to represent.
And we know that Barr and Wray just stood back. That’s called malfeasance. And yet Wray is up in the Senate foaming at the mouth about non-existent attacks on people he has contempt for.
All of them are criminals. They all need to be prosecuted. But we know their state AG’s are complicit as well: so who will do it?
They appointed a Special Prosecutor to “investigate” some absurdly phony stories about Trump. When do we get a real Special Prosecutor to go after all of the above?
Baseless Allegations my butt.
You are 100% correct about Piglosi
This won’t stop until the enemy regime who took over DC is eradicated.
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The new regime may be evil but it isn’t stupid. They are determined to wield control and the GOP isn’t strong enough or smart enough to stop them. The Dems easily out maneuver the GOP every time.
Don’t kid yourself; we’re going to be living under their rule for a long time to come.
“Our side” is perma-weak and simply not up to defeating them. We cannot keep expecting one man, as great as he is, to pull us from the fire. It will stop when WE stand up and make it stop.
...And drunk, period
I think the next election will be entirely within one day, overseen by the National Guard. In each of the 50 states.
Before 2022.
Basically, a do-over.
This should be considered a declaration of war against the constitution and the people of the United States of America.
Not only valid ID but blue thumb voting as well!
Two of his USSC Justices have been voting against protecting our votes!
I must say that Trump didn’t play the GOP. They clearly played him. The GOP is not a conservative party. It just pretends to be one.
Definitely it was a GOPe/uniparty play. IMO the question is whether and if so by how much and how soon Trump was in on it.
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