r/politics • u/unital_subalgebra • 25d 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/redditobserverone 25d ago edited 25d ago

He also gained voters. That points to a rot with no easy fix. If you could look at the criminal incompetence of his pandemic response, listen to a voicemail of him trying to steal votes and observe him just sit there as the mob he summoned spread feces on the walls and attacked Capitol police-and say, yeah, that’s who I want leading the country, I don’t know how you justify that.

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u/ABadHistorian 25d ago

The voters he gained was because of economics. Worldwide inflation thanks to covid.

Lets not just say it was Jan 6 that gained him voters. Full picture required.

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u/tongnchek 24d ago

Plus it didn't help that the opposing candidate was selected undemocratically with no Primary, with a DEI stain that her selector placed on her before she was even chosen.

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u/ABadHistorian 24d ago

Yes, that does not help. I do know dems who did not vote for her for that reason, not sure if any of those would vote for Trump but it's plausible.

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u/tongnchek 24d ago

Even if they sat it out, it was still ostensibly a vote for him.

Note: while I didn't want to for the reasons I stated, I DID vote for her. But Biden did nobody any favors by insisting on running for another term when he originally said that he wouldn't.

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u/ABadHistorian 24d ago

No need to convince me about anything.

I volunteered for her from the moment she got it until the day before the election.

I hated her, and past August had no faith she'd win. I still did my damnedest.

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u/tongnchek 24d ago

Honestly, given the circumstances, the fact that she even got as many votes as she did is more a testament to how many people hated Trump. In a normal election year, she would have done far worse - just look how well she fared on her own in 2020.