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Half of Republicans Would Back Postponing 2020 Election If Trump Proposed It

posted by Fnord666 on Friday August 11 2017, @04:49AM   
from the glass-half-full-or-half-empty dept.

DeathMonkey writes:

According to a poll conducted by two academic authors and published by The Washington Post, 52 percent of Republicans said they would back a postponement of the next election if Trump called for it.

If Trump and congressional Republicans proposed postponing the election to ensure only eligible citizens could vote, support from Republicans rises to 56 percent.

Pollsters found 47 percent of Republicans think Trump won the popular vote.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/346000-poll-about-half-of-republicans-would-back-postponing-2020-election-if-trump

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• Re:I call bullshit Re:I call bullshit (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday August 11 2017, @06:15PM (2 children)

  by Thexalon (636) on Friday August 11 2017, @06:15PM (#552475)

  As things stand, any president trying to force a third term will likely spark a civil war. The Court Fool is no exception to that.

  1. The question wasn't about Trump getting a third term, it was about delaying the election in 2020, in other words keeping Trump in office even if the voters would rather have somebody else due to the alleged risk of fraudulent votes swinging the election. This would without question be a constitutional violation of the highest order.

  2. As for the civil war you discuss, I get the distinct impression that Trump's base wouldn't mind that in the least. I think they believe they'd win and finally be able to do all the things they've been wanting to do for a long time, like kill off or at least lock up those who don't share their religion, and other undesirables.

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• Re:I call bullshit Re:I call bullshit (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday August 12 2017, @11:19AM (1 child)

  by Phoenix666 (552) on Saturday August 12 2017, @11:19AM (#552826) Journal

  This would without question be a constitutional violation of the highest order.

  Yeah, but as we've discussed many times in the past that's not a big deal anymore. The feelz are all that matter.

  2. As for the civil war you discuss, I get the distinct impression that Trump's base wouldn't mind that in the least. I think they believe they'd win and finally be able to do all the things they've been wanting to do for a long time, like kill off or at least lock up those who don't share their religion, and other undesirables.

  You're quite correct. I pointed out the same thing to my old progressive comrades-in-arms who have been waiting with bated breath for Trump to be impeached. The Trump base are "locked and loaded," champing at the bit for that civil war, and have been for 40 years. They are so ready for it. Let's not forget that there's a deep, deep well of nasty in those people, descended as they are from their forefathers who had no problem with slaughtering native Americans and enslaving millions of Africans and subjugating millions of Latin- and South Americans by proxy.

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  • Re:I call bullshit (Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Saturday August 12 2017, @09:33PM

    by khallow (3766) on Saturday August 12 2017, @09:33PM (#552980) Journal

    Let's not forget that there's a deep, deep well of nasty in those people, descended as they are from their forefathers who had no problem with slaughtering native Americans and enslaving millions of Africans and subjugating millions of Latin- and South Americans by proxy.

    Everyone has a deep well of nasty. That's part of being human. And I wager most people of the Americas who've been here more than a few generations descend in part from your categories of black hats. Judging people by their ancestors is a pretty racist thing to do, wouldn't you think?

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