[prawn]

The US president just today said that Republicans should "nationalize the voting" in future elections.

[rootusrootus]

It certainly gets us to keep talking about him. Which seems to be his primary skill. It does not have any basis in reality, however.

[XorNot]

This is what people keep saying until the administration does something and then dares the courts to stop them.

[watwut]

Reality check is that he has actual track record on delivering or trying to deliver on his anti-democratic impulses. In terms of personal monetary gain, he is the most successful president of history.

He is also actually successful at making Project 2025 reality. He is on the way to cause very real harm (economic, physical) to blue cities too.

[Dylan16807]

That sounds like a call to get rid of the electoral college...

[djb_hackernews]

It's a call to have his ICE goons (armed to the teeth and trained to escalate to violence of course) operate voting stations because of all of the "illegal" voters and for DHS to administer elections instead of leaving it to the states.

[SpicyLemonZest]

He also said his polls are the best they've ever been today. Trump works hard to cultivate an aura of inevitability, but he simply does not have the power to make false things true by declaring them so.

[estearum]

Well that's nice (i.e. an impeachable, despicable offense), but it doesn't actually change how elections are run.