President Trump
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Days after Trump left office, state Republicans have introduced a series of measures that would give lawmakers the power to overthrow the will of voters, both in the 2020 presidential contest and in future elections.
Some of the bills are aimed at the 2020 presidential election.
In Pennsylvania, state Sen. Cris Dush (R) introduced a resolution declaring his state’s presidential election illegal and void and the results were invalid. Dush legislation would have revoked the certification of presidential voters committed to President Biden and replaced them with a list elected by the Republican-controlled General Assembly.
Others would give legislatures the ability to decertify the results of future presidential elections in their states.
In Arizona, state Rep. Shawnna Bolick (R) introduced the bill last week that would allow the state legislature to decertify the results of presidential elections if they do not agree with the certification issued by the secretary of state.
Other efforts are not related to the presidential election, but would change or undermine the measures approved by the majority of voters.
In November, 61 percent of Florida voters passed a constitutional amendment that would raise the minimum wage from $ 8.56 per hour to $ 15 per hour in 2026. This week, state Sen. Jeff Brandes (R) introduced a legislation to amend this amendment, allowing employers to pay minimum wages to workers under the age of 21, workers previously convicted of a felony, and those who fall into “other difficult-to-hire” categories without definition.
In the same election, 54% of South Dakota voters passed a constitutional amendment to legalize recreational marijuana. Governor Kristi Noem
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None of these measures are being offered by bankers.
Bolick chairs the Arizona House Forms and Means Committee. Dush leads the Pennsylvania committee that oversees local government. Brandes chairs the Florida Senate Judiciary Committee. Noem is considered a potential presidential candidate in 2024.
The new efforts are part of a trend that could accelerate amid a wave of misinformation about the 2020 presidential election.
In recent years, the Florida legislature has undermined Amendment 4, a constitutional amendment that was supposed to restore the voting rights of offenders who had served their sentences. Voters approved the amendment, with 64% of their support.
Missouri lawmakers who opposed an independent redistricting committee approved by voters with 62% of the vote in 2018 put in another version – which re-established control of the Republican legislature over the process – in 2020. This repeal passed with 51% of the vote.
Former Maine Governor Paul LePage (R) declined to implement the Medicaid expansion, even after 59 percent of its members passed a 2017 voting measure that would accept the expansion under the Medicaid Act. ‘Accessible Assistance.
The efforts spanning a growing faction of Republican leaders are worrisome for those who once led the Great Old Party, but who are now adrift and marginalized.
“The Conservative movement, the Republican Party, has always had a dark side. You always had the Know Nothings, the America Firsters, the John Birch Society, and the Pat Buchanan guys. But they were not at the forefront. The perpetrators were Bush, Dole and McCain, “said Chris Vance, a former chairman of the Washington State Republican Party and a member of the center-right Niskanen Center.” The extremists would be in the corner of the room, but they didn’t. “Now they’re in charge.”
The reproach of democratic values comes from a deeper, darker view of the clash that defines modern American politics, which was pulled from the pulpit and the podium between conservative evangelicals and increasingly far-right politicians who lead the GOP’s descendants toward populist nativism. To hear them say that, more traditional Democrats and Republicans are not just the opposition, they are an existential threat to the future of the American experiment.
Trump served and serves as a voice that validates the darkest corners of conspiratorial republicanism. It has included Democrats, especially women, and especially black women, as “dogs,” “crazy,” “sick,” and “wild,” among a litany of other invectives. In 2017, his son Eric said, “To me, they’re not even people” in an interview with Fox News.
“Many of today’s Republicans see Democrats the way the Communists saw their McCarthyites grandparents,” said John Pitney, a political scientist at Claremont McKenna College and a former member of the Republican National Committee. “For them, Democrats are not legitimate adversaries they want to defeat, they are deadly enemies they must destroy.”
Even those who initially won office as conservatives of the movement in the pre-Trump era have been dragged. In talks in recent weeks with legislative leaders, who called for their names to be withheld when asked about the darker boundaries of their base, a state House speaker and an election committee chairman expressed sentiment. desperate for exasperation with his own inability to control. those who dismiss reality and threaten democracy.
Both lawmakers have publicly acknowledged that Biden won their states. But both have also claimed that their separate efforts to review the integrity of the election stem from concerns of its members, concerns that its own sides have adopted and inflamed.
“They are ready to do anything to maintain power. I mean literally anything. I hope they continue to do these things. I hope they introduce bills across the country to reverse the mail in the vote. I hope they attack the polling station, “Vance said.” The only thing that keeps them in the game is our very strange system that allows the minority to govern. “