Trump has said that the United States shouldn’t have midterm elections this year because midterm voters often vote against the president’s party. Democratic congressional leaders have said they expect Trump to disrupt and dispute the midterms.

“It’s some deep psychological thing, but when you win the presidency, you don’t win the midterms,” Trump told Reuters in a recent interview. He then boasted that his presidency had accomplished so much that “when you think about it, we shouldn’t even have an election.”

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told the Associated Press that Democrats are concerned that Trump will try to prevent open and fair midterm elections.

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[–] 165 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Yesterday he joked about it. Today he says it. Tomorrow he does it.

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  • [–] 106 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    So the reason he's come up with is literally just he thinks he'll lose?

    That's a very good reason for there to be an election, Donny

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    [–] 92 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    The US shouldn't have a convicted felon in the oval, but here we are.

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  • [–] 87 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

    I dunno, Biden performed better than expected and he's a sleepy old guy. Is trump saying he's no better than a sleepy old guy?

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    [–] 61 points 7 months ago

    I really don't give a fuck what this asshole wants.

    His very existence in that office is illegal and immoral.

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  • [–] 51 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Democrats are concerned. Ahh yes, just concerned. The silence from Dems has been disgusting

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  • [–] 44 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I'm sure trump is going to call for the mid-terms elections to be cancelled. We'll still have them, but it will give cover for gerrymandered red-states to reduce their efforts to make voting available and visible to their citizen.

    If the elections go south for Republicans, I fully expect Mike Johnson to play games with allowing Democrats to be sworn in and seated in Congress. We really need to be preparing for both of these scenarios.

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    [–] 40 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Some people escaped dictatorships... only to end up here... 🫠

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    [–] 38 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Jeez. Forget going mask-off. This asshole just did the equivalent of walking in the room naked.

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  • [–] 36 points 7 months ago (32 children)

    Hey “we just gotta vote harder” Americans, what you gonna do when they take voting away?

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    [–] 36 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    "Trump has said that the United States shouldn’t have midterm elections this year because midterm voters often vote against the president’s party."

    Yeah, that's why it's called VOTING.

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    [–] 35 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    He already said before that if the Republicans lose the mid terms, and they would, they will, he would be jailed

    He's right

    And he will be.

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    [–] 34 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    When you think about it, your mother shoulda swallowed.

    💦Edit: Trump's mother. Not OP's. I had a similar misunderstanding recently.

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    [–] 27 points 7 months ago

    Well, he said you'd only need to vote the one time.

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  • [–] 26 points 7 months ago

    Wow it's almost as though midterms represent some kind of check and balance. Trump and the republicans stand a good chance of being wiped out.

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    California is working to prevent any candidate that violates the constitution from being on the ballot

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  • [–] 22 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    🐝 lot cooler if that happened prior to ‘24 instead of it going the way it did…

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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago

    Shouldn’t have a felonious, rapist, racist, seditious, stochastic terrorist pedophile as president either, but here we are.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago

    I vote we throw Shitler, the turd Reich and every politician who takes money from Israel into a woodchipper and start over

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    US shouldn't have a president

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago* (7 children)

    There's only one way this idiot will ever shut the fuck up. Do it, somebody, please!

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    [–] 14 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Trump says a lot of stupid shit.

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    [–] 13 points 7 months ago

    I bet he does.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago

    Fuck off Shitler. I'm gonna vote even harder now!

    (dark pen and a very assertive shove into the dropbox)

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago

    Gosh, if only we'd known what he was like before all this happened.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Did America vote against the president in the last midterms? I seem to remember MAGA wanted a red wave and got sweet fuck all.

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    [–] 10 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Do it Trump ... that would make Trump an active threat to the Consitution.

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    [–] 10 points 7 months ago*

    Krasnov can go fuck himself. Where are the damn Epstein Files?

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Wait, Schumer is the majority leader, not the minority leader? When did that happen?

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    [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    Third or fourth time he’s said this, at least twice recently.

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