> President Donald Trump’s former adviser Steve Bannon suggested on his War Room podcast this week that the Trump Administration should send Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to polling places during this year’s midterm elections. “You’re damn right we’re gonna have ICE surround the polls come November,” Bannon said.
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> During a press briefing with reporters on Thursday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said she has not heard President Donald Trump consider deploying immigration agents to polling sites, but she refused to rule it out.
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> “That’s not something I’ve ever heard the president consider, no,” Leavitt said.
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> When a reporter asked Leavitt if she could guarantee the American public that immigration agents won’t be around voting locations, Leavitt said: “I can’t guarantee an ICE agent won’t be around a polling location in November—I mean, that’s frankly a very silly hypothetical question. But what I can tell you is I haven’t heard the President discuss any formal plans to put ICE outside of polling locations.”
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> President Trump has repeatedly spread false claims that large numbers of non-citizens voted illegally in presidential elections and that widespread voter fraud led to his 2020 election loss. Trump said on Monday that Republicans should “take over the voting in at least — many, 15 places” and “nationalize the voting.” Doing so would violate the Constitution which requires elections be run by states and counties, a system that was designed to avoid having a sitting President influence the outcome.
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> Last week, FBI agents, along with Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, entered Fulton County, Georgia election facilities with a search warrant and seized ballots from the November 2020 election that Trump lost to Joe Biden.
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> Election experts and Democratic lawmakers have pointed to recent comments from Trump and his allies, as well as the scenes playing out in places like Minneapolis and Georgia, to raise concerns about the Administration deploying armed federal officials to shape the election results.
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> Senator Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, voiced that concern in an interview on The Contrarian podcast on Wednesday, saying he was “greatly afraid” that “those ICE roving vans be used to try to go and intimidate voters at the polling station.”
pulkwheesle on
This was always the obvious move, not outright cancelling elections. They only need to do it in select areas where the races will be close for it to be effective.
KingGoofball on
Why is every 3rd lib seeing shit like this and going full doomer obeying in advance saying: it’s over they’re going to steal it? (Guarantee it’ll appear in this thread)
Are you bots or does your democracy mean so little to you that you’ll let the words of some two-bit fascist and his cretins despoil your hope and heart for a better republic? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills seeing this over and over again in liberal spaces now.
Like I guess bro but I’m going to the polls and casting a ballot in November quite literally over my dead body. If you don’t share that sentiment I don’t know what you’re even doing here.
Hotdog_Cowboy on
I don’t even think they will do this. What they will do, starting on election night, is claim that certain elections were stolen, and create a justification for the GOP to simply not seat Democrats.
Suitable-Source-7534 on
ICE is trump’s personal police
Mddcat04 on
Really think this is just Bannon vice-signaling. (Last time he was talking about there being a plan for Trump to seek a third term). This is a man who is out of power and is seeking attention.
I also sort of think this would backfire spectacularly. There aren’t enough ICE agents to make a meaningful difference. There are a lot of polling places. Even if they could target specific ones in swing districts, that would require a level of coordination that the Trump admin and ICE have not demonstrated so far. It could also just piss people off and drive greater turnout, as occasionally happens with voting restrictions.
FreakinGeese on
Let’s see how that one works out.
AllAmericanBreakfast on
I think we need to aggressively rebrand “election day” as being on October 15th.
If ICE shows up on Nov. 3rd, then they’ve missed the mark. The ballots are already in the machines. If they show up on Oct. 15th, then it gives a two-week buffer.
Governors, mayors, influencers, nonprofits, and ordinary citizens in the 15 swing counties they’re likely targeting need to be starting NOW to implement this.
LtCdrHipster on
LMAO fucking try it bro. Those dorks won’t make it within a mile of a polling place.
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> President Donald Trump’s former adviser Steve Bannon suggested on his War Room podcast this week that the Trump Administration should send Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to polling places during this year’s midterm elections. “You’re damn right we’re gonna have ICE surround the polls come November,” Bannon said.
>
> During a press briefing with reporters on Thursday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said she has not heard President Donald Trump consider deploying immigration agents to polling sites, but she refused to rule it out.
>
> “That’s not something I’ve ever heard the president consider, no,” Leavitt said.
>
> When a reporter asked Leavitt if she could guarantee the American public that immigration agents won’t be around voting locations, Leavitt said: “I can’t guarantee an ICE agent won’t be around a polling location in November—I mean, that’s frankly a very silly hypothetical question. But what I can tell you is I haven’t heard the President discuss any formal plans to put ICE outside of polling locations.”
>
> President Trump has repeatedly spread false claims that large numbers of non-citizens voted illegally in presidential elections and that widespread voter fraud led to his 2020 election loss. Trump said on Monday that Republicans should “take over the voting in at least — many, 15 places” and “nationalize the voting.” Doing so would violate the Constitution which requires elections be run by states and counties, a system that was designed to avoid having a sitting President influence the outcome.
>
> Last week, FBI agents, along with Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, entered Fulton County, Georgia election facilities with a search warrant and seized ballots from the November 2020 election that Trump lost to Joe Biden.
>
> Election experts and Democratic lawmakers have pointed to recent comments from Trump and his allies, as well as the scenes playing out in places like Minneapolis and Georgia, to raise concerns about the Administration deploying armed federal officials to shape the election results.
>
> Senator Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, voiced that concern in an interview on The Contrarian podcast on Wednesday, saying he was “greatly afraid” that “those ICE roving vans be used to try to go and intimidate voters at the polling station.”
This was always the obvious move, not outright cancelling elections. They only need to do it in select areas where the races will be close for it to be effective.
Why is every 3rd lib seeing shit like this and going full doomer obeying in advance saying: it’s over they’re going to steal it? (Guarantee it’ll appear in this thread)
Are you bots or does your democracy mean so little to you that you’ll let the words of some two-bit fascist and his cretins despoil your hope and heart for a better republic? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills seeing this over and over again in liberal spaces now.
Like I guess bro but I’m going to the polls and casting a ballot in November quite literally over my dead body. If you don’t share that sentiment I don’t know what you’re even doing here.
I don’t even think they will do this. What they will do, starting on election night, is claim that certain elections were stolen, and create a justification for the GOP to simply not seat Democrats.
ICE is trump’s personal police
Really think this is just Bannon vice-signaling. (Last time he was talking about there being a plan for Trump to seek a third term). This is a man who is out of power and is seeking attention.
I also sort of think this would backfire spectacularly. There aren’t enough ICE agents to make a meaningful difference. There are a lot of polling places. Even if they could target specific ones in swing districts, that would require a level of coordination that the Trump admin and ICE have not demonstrated so far. It could also just piss people off and drive greater turnout, as occasionally happens with voting restrictions.
Let’s see how that one works out.
I think we need to aggressively rebrand “election day” as being on October 15th.
If ICE shows up on Nov. 3rd, then they’ve missed the mark. The ballots are already in the machines. If they show up on Oct. 15th, then it gives a two-week buffer.
Governors, mayors, influencers, nonprofits, and ordinary citizens in the 15 swing counties they’re likely targeting need to be starting NOW to implement this.
LMAO fucking try it bro. Those dorks won’t make it within a mile of a polling place.
https://preview.redd.it/9dqhomd36shg1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c53caebd0235a55aaf8caa0fab73779f4212da45
I saw the title and I thought this was talking about putting ICE funding to a public vote or something lmao. Man, I gotta stop being optimistic.
ICE at the polls.
https://preview.redd.it/5sz0snrrvshg1.jpeg?width=941&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0839e630ad4a2e9f044cbd347cea239afd6e2b8f