MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow weighed in on the 2026 midterm elections on Monday night time (August 18) as she stated President Donald Trump is attempting to “rig” the elections to offer Republicans final management of Congress.
Maddow defined how Trump lately known as on Texas to redraw their congressional districts, an effort to attempt to take 5 seats within the Home of Representatives for the Republican Celebration. But it surely’s not simply Texas concerned on this map-moving effort, because the host shared on Monday’s version of The Rachel Maddow Present.
“Vice President J.D. Vance flew to Indiana final week to place stress on the Republican governor there to additionally rig the Indiana maps; for the Republicans in Missouri and New Hampshire and South Carolina and Florida to attempt to get these states to all rig their congressional maps as nicely,” she stated, per The Wrap.
Maddow acknowledged that if these efforts are profitable, it could “successfully assure Republican management of Congress for years to return… demanding adjustments to congressional district maps to basically make it structurally unattainable for Democrats to regulate Congress. Once more, utilizing Republican-controlled states to do it.”
She then targeted on how Trump lately demanded a “new” census, regardless of work on the 2030 census already underway. Based on NPR, Trump stated in a social media publish that his thought of a brand new census would exclude hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants.
“The census is how we get congressional districts, and if Trump can successfully nullify the present census by blaming the counting of immigrants or one thing, by doing so, he’ll lay the bottom for claiming that each one the present congressional districts on this nation, which all solely exist due to that census … are all in some way dangerous and so they can’t be used,” Maddow defined. “Subsequently, we are able to’t have congressional elections utilizing the congressional districts that we thought we have now.”
Maddow concluded the section by claiming Trump has been taking concepts from his “finest good friend,” Russian President Vladimir Putin, in relation to controlling elections. This stemmed from Trump posting on his Reality Social account that he intends to signal an govt order to finish mail-in ballots and voting machines, deeming them “extremely inaccurate.”
“Trump stated Putin gave him recommendation on the way to conduct elections right here in our nation,” Maddow shared. “Putin says that individuals shouldn’t be allowed to vote by mail. He says he received that concept from Putin. And so, in the present day, Trump says that he’ll signal an govt order barring People nationwide from voting by mail and probably banning voting machines as nicely.”
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