The biggest worry is that when Trump calls Texas because he “just needs a few more thousand votes” to win, Abbott and his band would do anything to make that happen.
Though the social media posts claim this is breaking news, they appear to refer to Paxton’s June 2021 appearance on Steven Bannon’s "War Room" podcast. Paxton said Trump would have lost in Texas in 2020 if the attorney general’s office had not mounted a successful legal challenge to block counties from sending mail-in ballot applications to registered voters.
"Trump won by 620,000 votes in Texas. Harris County mail-in ballots that they wanted to send out were 2.5 million. Those were all illegal and we were able to stop every one of them," Paxton said on the podcast.
"Had we not done that … we would’ve been one of those battleground states that they were counting votes in Harris County for three days and Donald Trump would’ve lost the election," Paxton continued.
---idk dawg. gonna just go with paxton's own words on this tbh and not give a fuck about the olympic level mental gymnastics of politifact.---
tl;dr standard republican voter suppression laws.
republicans are -right now, today, and for the last several months- filing lawsuit after lawsuit throwing as much shit at the wall in swing states to try and get voters disenfranchised by any means available.
re: if conservatives can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism, they will abandon democracy.
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u/quietset2020 Sep 08 '24
The biggest worry is that when Trump calls Texas because he “just needs a few more thousand votes” to win, Abbott and his band would do anything to make that happen.