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    After Admitting "It’s Always Been Republicans Suppressing Votes," Trump Advisor Says Party Will Get Even More Aggressive in 2020

    "It's clear there's no law Donald Trump and his right-wing machine won't bend, break, or ignore to try to win the presidency."



    a top advisor for President Donald Trump's re-election campaign caught on tape in November bragging of the Republican Party's history of voter suppression—and promising to go on the offensive in 2020.

    "Traditionally it's always been Republicans suppressing votes in places," said Clark. "Let's start protecting our voters. We know where they are... Let's start playing offense a little bit. That's what you’re going to see in 2020."

    the Republican Party determined to use relaxed civil rights regulations to their advantage: (Thanks, SCOTUS s)
    The roughly 20-minute audio offers an insider's glimpse of Trump’s re-election strategy,

    showing the campaign focusing on voting locations in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania,

    which form the the so-called "blue wall" of traditional Democratic strength that Trump broke through to win in 2016.

    Both parties are pouring millions of dollars into the states, anticipating they’ll be just as critical in the 2020 presidential contest.


    Republican officials publicly signaled plans to step up their Election Day monitoring after

    a judge in 2018 lifted a consent decree in place since 1982 that barred the Republican National Committee from voter verification and other "ballot security" efforts.

    Critics have argued the tactics amount to voter intimidation.

    "The strategy to rig the rules in elections and give themselves an unfair partisan advantage goes to Donald Trump, the highest levels of his campaign and the top Republican leadership,"

    "This seems like a noteworthy admission of something many people believe to be true but few people involved acknowledge,"

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    they need to keep trump out of the loop or he will protect russia

    as he has always done

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    Voter Purge Rates Remain High, Analysis Finds

    New data reveal that counties with a history of voter discrimination have continued purging people from the rolls at elevated rates.

    After analyzing the 2019 EAC data, we found:


    • At least 17 million voters were purged nationwide between 2016 and 2018, similar to the number we saw between 2014 and 2016, but considerably higher than we saw between 2006 and 2008;
    • The median purge rate over the 2016–2018 period in jurisdictions previously subject to preclearance was 40 percent higher than the purge rate in jurisdictions that were not covered by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act;
    • If purge rates in the counties that were covered by Section 5 were the same as the rates in non-Section 5 counties,

    as many as 1.1 million fewer individuals would have been removed from voter rolls between 2016 and 2018

    This analysis does not assess how many voters were improperly purged.

    https://www.brennancenter.org/our-wo...analysis-finds

    Again, Repug/oligarchy SCOTUS s gutted Section 5 / VRA to enable voter purging, voter suppression, etc, etc.




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    Ain't rightwingnutjob/right-wing-HATE-media AmeriKKKA greatest ever?

    Fox News, GOP media now warn of bloodshed if Democrats win in 2020


    the reckless rhetoric has revolved around proposed new gun laws in the wake of America's latest string of mass shootings.

    Those are laws that would likely only be enacted if Democrats won the Senate and the White House in 2020.

    If you take “people’s guns away from them, there’s going to be a lot of violence," The View
    ’s Meghan McCain announced.

    "What you are calling for is civil war,”
    warned Fox News' Tucker Carlson.

    “What you are calling for is an incitement to violence."

    And that was just a sampling of the right-wing media hysteria last week.


    the worst type of far-right insurrectionism.

    It's an ominous and long-held belief among conservatives and conservative media outlets that citizens need to be fully armed in order to one day wage war on the American government, as a kind of second American civil war.

    the reason the Second Amendment exists is not for self-defense, or

    to protect the rights of hunters and gun enthusiasts,

    but to enable citizens to go to war with the U.S. government,

    and to fend off a “tyrannical” turn at home.

    "The core philosophy of the Three Percenter movement,

    whose adherents have engaged in violence,

    is that citizens would be justified in taking up arms to violently overthrow the government

    if the government enacted stronger gun regulations,"

    In 2009, a far-right Newsmax columnist determined that a “military coup ” to resolve the 'Obama problem'" was not “unrealistic.”

    That was about the same time Glenn Beck used his then-new program on Fox News to
    game out bloody scenarios for the coming civil war against the Obama-led tyranny.

    Note that the
    armed rebellion rhetoric was uncorked just weeks after Obama's first Cabinet had been confirmed.

    https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...ail=emaildkboy





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    This study empasizes size of voting blocs (comparing 2012 to 2016) over vote choice



    In this paper we demonstrate that the common practice of regressing vote choice on individual characteristics is largely uninformative about where a candidate support lies in the electorate. This is because vote choice is only one component of the contribution of voting blocs to a candidate’s vote total. We must also know how prevalent a group is in the electorate and the turnout rate of the group to know how much a group contributes to a candidate’s vote total.


    Taking these three components into account, we first show that even though racial and ethnic at udes were activated in 2016, they did not contribute a distinctive number of votes to Trump. We show that Trump’s net vote total among whites with the highest levels of racial resentment was smaller than Romney’s. Further, we find that Trump’s relative support grew more among white moderates on immigration than among white conservatives on immigration, and that Trump received an almost identical share of votes from former Obama voters as Romney. Rather than these explanations, we show that Trump received an increase in relative support among low-SES whites who are independents and political moderates. We find Trump gained support among whites who are disabled and retired, but we see only limited evidence that Trump gained support among whites who reside in depressed economic contexts.
    https://williammarble.co/docs/vb.pdf

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    pretty much same story in PA, MI, WI, NC

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