With Donald Trump facing felony charges over his attempts to overturn the 2020 election, the former president is flooding the airwaves and his social media platform with distortions, misinformation and unfounded conspiracy theories about his defeat.

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    1 year ago

    Ok, but how do they keep those legislatures in place? Even with gerrymandering, if Republicans aren’t voting, that doesn’t help them.

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        1 year ago

        But that’s my point- they’re only majority Republican because enough Republicans are convinced to still vote for them. If they convince enough of them that voting doesn’t work, even if they made the change that legislatures get to choose the president, they are practically guaranteeing the legislature will fall to the Democrats.

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            1 year ago

            There are if Republicans don’t vote. There are Democrats in those rural districts too. I know because Indiana, where I live, is full of rural districts. Democrats are gaining ground in them too in terms of percentages. They aren’t winning, yet, but if Republicans stop voting?