Rachel Maddow Shows Why Trump Is Trying To Rig The Midterm Election

Rachel Maddow explained that the opposition to Trump is growing and hardened, which is why the president is trying to rig or discredit the midterm election.

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Trump can’t cancel the midterm election. Even he understands this, which is why he is instead trying to prevent the people who would vote to end his presidency from being able to cast a ballot. This is what Trump’s gerrymandering effort and attack on vote by mail is really about.

Rachel Maddow dabbled in the canceled election theory, but she or her guests couldn’t provide any method for how this would happen. Maddow did discuss something important, and that is why Trump is so desperate to remove people who are ready to vote his party out of power from accessing the ballot box.

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Maddow said:

By 22 points. Americans disapprove of the job Trump is doing as president, and this is something we're seeing more and more of. If you look inside those numbers, the country, it turns out, is not just turning against Trump. It's hardening in its turn against him.

And what I mean by that is, if you look at just the minority of Americans who say they do approve of Trump, the proportion of Americans who say they strongly approve of Trump is 27%, whereas the proportion of Americans who say they strongly disapprove of him is 47%. I mean, we haven't seen numbers that low for Trump's approval.

Overall, we haven't seen numbers that low for people who strongly approve of trump since right after January 6th. I mean, nearly half the country now describes themselves as strongly disapproving of Trump as president. The number of people strongly disapproving of him is 20 points higher than the number of people who say they strongly approve.

The country is really against this president by large and increasing numbers, with increasingly strong feelings against him. And I think the average authoritarian doesn't much like the idea of elections in general, but I think an authoritarian minded leader with public approval numbers that disastrous heading south that fast might particularly dislike the idea of elections right now. Like like right now in America this year.

It was disapponting to me that Rachel Maddow brought up the idea of canceled elections, and instead of having an election expert or a political scientist on to discuss the possibility and why this absolutely will not happen, she spent three minutes talking to a journalist and historian, and they couldn’t deliver an answer to the question of how 50 state run elections could be canceled?

Because, they can’t be.

What Trump can do is try to pressure states into getting rid of early voting and vote by mail. He can encourage states under Republican control to gerrymander and adopt extreme voter suppression tactics.

The country has hardened against Trump. Donald Trump is trying to rig the 2026 election.

The conversation we need to have should be about voting rights and fighting voting suppression, not about the fantasy cancellation/ of elections.

The American people are ready to end Trump’s presidency, and it's up to all of us to make sure that they get the chance to do it.

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