I seriously doubt THIS is gonna happen….
Just the mere mention of this has deep racial intimidation negative’s….
Republicans ain’t happy with Trump’s comments either….
In an interview Thursday with Fox News host Sean Hannity, Trump described law enforcement officers as part of a phalanx of authorities he hopes will monitor voting in November.
“We’re going to have everything,” the president said. “We’re going to have sheriffs, and we’re going to have law enforcement, and we’re going to hopefully have U.S. attorneys and we’re going to have everybody, and attorney generals. But it’s very hard.”
Trump’s remarks are part of a pattern of comments in which he has suggested he is willing to take actions to impede how people cast their ballots this fall. He has repeatedly sought to undermine confidence in the November vote, making false claims about the integrity of mail-in balloting and raising the specter of widespread electoral fraud. Earlier this month, he floated the idea of withholding election money from states and refusing funding for the U.S. Postal Service so as to curtail the use of voting by mail.
The president has limited authority to order law enforcement to patrol polling places. Sheriff’s deputies and police officers are commanded at the local level, and afederal law bars U.S. government officials from sending “armed men” to the vicinity of polling places.
But civil rights advocates said they feared Trump’s words could inspire local officials to act on his behalf. And they said even the threat of encountering police officers at the polls could be frightening to some voters, particularly in communities of color where residents are distrustful of the police….
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Mike Reed, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee, said that law enforcement officers are not part of the RNC’s new poll-watching program. “Our program consists of volunteers and attorneys,” he said.
Other Republican officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal strategy said they were unaware of plans to deploy law enforcement officers to polling places, adding that the president’s comments were inaccurate and unhelpful to the party’s efforts to expand its poll-watching program through appropriate and legal measures.
Oh it won’t happen.
Typical Republican move though.
Always insinuating that there be nefarious plots to “steal” elections.
They know it!
Of course,as far as Proof of any of this ?
They have None,
And the guys complaining vote BY MAIL‼️😳
Then there is this going in the opposite direction of Trump…..
GOP Seeks to Match Democrats in Mail Vote Applications
“Republicans are playing catch-up with Democrats to boost the number of their voters requesting mail-in ballots in key states, an effort that is complicated by President Trump’s criticism of all-mail voting,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Nearly a quarter of the votes cast in the 2016 general election nationwide were by-mail… Fears of the coronavirus are expected to boost those numbers to unprecedented levels this year.”
Politicalwire…
There’s an extreme and very sad irony in the fact that a century and a half ago, staunch Republican national administrations were dispatching Federal marshals and troops to Southern polling places to protect the colored citizens’ vote against intimidation by Democrats resisting and undermining Reconstruction.
The Fifteenth Amendment — protecting citizens’ right to vote regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude [slavery] — was passed exactly 150 years ago last February by Republican Congresses and state legislatures against Democratic opposition.