In wake of Donald Trump’s call for Republicans to ‘take over’ voting, senator Ruben Gallego urges citizens to take a stand and give the ‘ultimate response’

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/58550623

The Democratic senator Ruben Gallego has proposed that, should Donald Trump try to sabotage the midterm elections, Americans should respond with a general strike that would “grind the country to a halt”.

Earlier this week the US president called for Republicans to “take over” and “nationalise” voting in at least 15 unspecified locations, repeating his false claims that elections are plagued by widespread fraud.

On Thursday Gallego, a senator for Arizona and an Iraq war veteran, warned that Trump could seek to interfere with the November midterms that will determine control of Congress – and urged citizens to fight fire with fire.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    2 hours ago

    We don’t let them hijack it, it’s as simple as that. If they can take it from us, we can take it back. All we have to do is play Hard Ball, and force them to abide by the Constitution, with NO EXCEPTIONS.

    Protecting The Constitution is the objective, and it doesn’t help at all to advocate for calling it lost, and proceeding in a vacuum. Otherwise, they can fill that vacuum with whatever they want.

    If we don’t want MAGA to decide what America will look like forever, then we better go all in on defending and preserving the Constitution, because we don’t have anything else.

    • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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      1 hour ago

      Your comments are so weird. It’s as if they were pre-recorded or LLM slop as you’re making references to things that were never said or even alluded to previously and you don’t seem to be acknowledging anything I have said.