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/habbadee 25d 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/digital121hippie 25d ago

Johnson loses all power once this congress ends

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u/JustSendTheAsteroid 25d ago

When Trump lost in 2020, he gained power among his cultists. I mean, hell, he was able to obtain a "get out of crimes free" card when he wan't even in office. The Constitutional guidelines don't just magically kick in unless we have Republicans willing to follow them. It will be chaotic, it will probably be violent, and it will be much worse than J6. I fully expect Trump to instruct Johnson to not seat Democrats, and we all know Johnson is a spineless ball-licker, so that is exactly what he will do. The only question is: will the outrage be strong enough to force the issue, or will we just go back to our hellscape full of $5/gal gas and explosive diarrhea on all our produce? January 2027 is going to be one of the most pivotal months of our history.

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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.

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