Trump Moves To Protect Midterms From Voters

President Donald Trump unveiled an election-security plan designed to protect the midterms from their most persistent threat: Americans deciding who wins them. During a Real America’s Voice interview, host Wayne Allyn Root suggested declaring a national security emergency if the Senate fails to pass legislation imposing photo identification, proof-of-citizenship requirements and tighter limits on mail ballots. Trump replied that “stranger things have happened,” the customary presidential notice that constitutional lawyers should cancel breakfast and remain near a television.

The proposed emergency would preserve democracy by storing it beyond the reach of voters, who have repeatedly demonstrated a willingness to select candidates without first obtaining executive approval. “Nobody loves elections more than me, but frankly, the voting is the dangerous part,” Trump said. “You have millions of people choosing anybody they want, sometimes Democrats, and that creates tremendous uncertainty. Under my emergency, every vote will be completely secure because we’ll know what it says before it’s cast.” White House allies said the approach would restore public confidence by eliminating the nerve-racking interval between Election Day and the announcement of the president’s preferred result.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune has faced pressure to advance the voting measure despite insufficient support in the chamber, an obstacle administration officials described as proof that Congress remains operational enough to justify bypassing it. Under the plan, Americans would still be permitted to visit polling places, receive stickers, pose beside ballot scanners and experience the familiar pageantry of civic participation. Election workers would then safeguard the process from irregular choices, inconvenient majorities and other forms of unauthorized democracy. The White House called the proposal a victory for election integrity, defining integrity as the absolute certainty that nothing as reckless as an election will interfere with the government’s decision.

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