The Art of the Steal
How Dems Are Prepping To Resist a Trump Victory
If Donald J. Trump wins the presidency in November, will Democrats even allow him to take the oath of office and enter the White House as POTUS 47 in January?
By all accounts, they are already prepping the groundwork to overturn his election.
First, they are registering thousands of illegal migrants to vote — and resisting any efforts to clean up voter rolls or protect election integrity.
When the Republican House on July 19 passed a bill (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act) to guarantee no illegals vote in federal elections, only 5 Democrats joined 216 Republicans to pass the bill. Another 198 Dems voted no. And in the Senate, Leader Chuck Schumer refused even to bring it up for a vote.
DHS Sec Alejandro Mayorkas, who during the botched Hurricane Helene relief effort disclosed that FEMA had emptied its disaster funds to house and resettle illegal migrants, now insists that Team Biden-Harris did NOT open the borders so migrants could vote Democrat in gratitude for all the free stuff the Dems gave them.
“The notion that we have sought to intentionally allow individuals to cross the border illegally for the purpose of voting is preposterous,” he fumed on CBS’s Face the Nation. Cue the indignation. “Everyone should condemn that rhetoric.”
Maybe he should check with the Justice Department, which is suing Alabama and Virginia for having the audacity to purge their voter rolls of illegal migrants. This is the same DOJ that, in 2021, sued Georgia for its Voter ID bill, which requires voters to show their IDs, on grounds it discriminated against African-Americans.
In Alabama, Secretary of State Wes Allen is removing non-citizens from a group of 3,251 individuals who had been issued “non-citizen identification numbers” by DHS for tax purposes. "I have been clear that I will not tolerate the participation of non-citizens in our elections," he said. The feds are suing him.
In Virginia, officials over the last two years purged 6,303 individuals who, when asked on a form about their citizenship, wrote “no.” “Americans will see this for exactly what it is,” said Gov Glenn Youngkin, “a desperate attempt to attack the legitimacy of the elections in the Commonwealth.” The feds are suing him too.
The state law, signed by Dem Gov Tim Kaine and on the books for 18 years, mandates a periodic cleanup using DMV data, where people self-identity as non-citizens. Former Democrat governors Terry McAliffe and Ralph Northam used this method in previous elections “all the way up to October.” For the DOJ to file suit against VA for this 25 days before an election, Youngkin said, “is unprecedented, and represents a Department of Justice trying to protect something other than free and fair elections.”
The grounds for these lawsuits is the 90-day Quiet Period suggested by federal election law, but the DOJ is not observing the 90-day quiet period when it comes to its unrelenting lawfare campaign against Donald Trump for his role in Jan 6. Even though 1/ Trump called for peaceful protests 2/ Trump urged Speaker Pelosi to call out the national guard, which she declined, and urged the military to send troops, which the Pentagon also declined saying they didn’t like the “optics” 3/ the Supreme Court has already ruled that presidents have immunity for official acts 4/ the Inspector General is sitting on a report showing extensive use of FBI informants on January 6— investigative reporter Julie Kelly reports that Jack Smith may yet publish another damning legal document against Trump, with weeks left on the campaign.
The Mayokras outcry — how dare you insinuate that we opened the border to fill the voter rolls with people who will perpetuate Dem control— is also laughable because it’s part of the Dem playbook of casting any criticism as “misinformation.” It’s like a red flag to their base not to believe legitimate policy questions raised by conservatives.
Denouncing Trump’s “disinformation,” Kamala Harris just this week warned that Trump would eliminate the Constitution and imprison his political foes. Gosh, seems like Biden White House is doing that by ignoring Supreme Court rulings (on student loan forgiveness and presidential immunity) and by continuing its lawfare persecution of Trump, who despite appeals from his base never prosecuted Hillary Clinton for acid-washing emails from her private server that had been subpoenaed by Congress.
George Orwell is famous for his prophetic novel 1984, a book published in 1949 that forecast a future government that would enslave its citizens by erasing their nation’s history and controlling information. One great line: “The Party taught one to distrust the evidence of one's eyes and ears. That was its final, most essential command.” So VP candidate Tim Walz insists prices in grocery stores are “false information.”
Finally, they are seeding the resistance, ready to pounce on Nov. 6.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, leader of the Jan 6 inquiry, has telegraphed that he may not certify the 2024 election results if he can prove Trump stole it. Already, Dems are trying to kneecap Trump’s legal defense by disbarring his lawyers. More, Raskin argues that the 14th Amendment, written to discredit southern leaders who led the Confederate secession, could disqualify Trump because of Jan 6, because of the “insurrection.” He has talked about moving to disqualify Trump during the certification process on Jan 6, 2025, acknowledging that this approach “could lead to something akin to Civil War.”
It’s possible Raskin can sell this approach, with media help. But the media is losing prestige and viewers, as more Americans turn to Social Media for news. The Gallup Poll recently found distrust of the media at a historic low. “For the third consecutive year, more U.S. adults have no trust at all in the media (36%) than trust it a great deal or fair amount. Another 33% of Americans express ‘not very much’ confidence.”
Donald Trump is asking supporters to turn out for the election in huge numbers, a result “too big to rig.” If he wins in a landslide, amid a changing media landscape where conservatives have access to the public square, he might just walk in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue again, with a much deeper bench of minds and talent — Elon Musk, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Vivek Ramaswamy, Tulsi Gabbard — and a mandate to restore the country to what he calls the “common sense” policies of a new GOP.
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