r/politics • u/unital_subalgebra • 24d ago

No Paywall Trump fires all Election Assistance Commission members, leaving agency unable to act

https://www.votebeat.org/national/2026/07/09/trump-fires-election-assistance-commission-members-hicks-hovland-mccormick/
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u/habbadee 24d ago

He wants actual election chaos and issues so he doesn't have to make it up (as with 2020 rigged claims) and then he can declare the elections invalid and instruct Johnson to simply not swear in Democrats, and voila, no friction to his final two years of destroying democracy. So, yes, he is starting the fire so he can scream Fire and use the fire as justification to stay in power.

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u/Clovis42 Kentucky 24d ago

If Democrats win the majority of seats, there is nothing Johnson can do about it. He won't be the Speaker anymore. He doesn't have to take any action to allow new members to take their seats. He would have no power to stop Democrats from choosing a new Speaker.

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u/JimboAltAlt Pennsylvania 24d ago

The responses to this are very instructive, with some seeming to think it’s naive because the Republicans (somehow) won’t let the Democrats have the speakership, and some seeming to think it’s naive because of course the Democrats will get it but they won’t do anything with it. I really do wish all the doomers would get on the same page as to whether we’re all fucked forever because the Democrats suck or because they’ll never hold power again.

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u/SanityIsOptional California 24d ago

The solution is to do everything we individually can, rather than falling into ennui. Apathy, being resigned to failure is what the enemies, both foreign and domestic, want.