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Thursday on MS NOW\u2019s \u201cThe Briefing,\u201d Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said that President Donald Trump \u201chas no role constitutionally\u201d\u00a0in administering midterm elections.<\/p>\n
Raskin said, \u201cEverything we\u2019re hearing about today is an echo of what took place in 2020. Write me a memo. Explain how we can steal the election. Why? Because their policies are tremendously unpopular. They\u2019re plummeting in the polls. So they don\u2019t have a program of policies for the country. They\u2019re just going to try to shrink and reduce the electorate and somehow rig the electoral result.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added, \u201cThe administration should take note, from what happened in the tariffs case where Donald Trump there again, completely bypassed Congress and then purported to impose the largest tax increase, basically in American history on the American people in the court, struck it down rightfully, because he has no power to do that. Congress is the lawmaking branch. And in Article 1, Section 4, we\u2019ve got the power to essentially amend what the states are doing in terms of administering elections but it\u2019s totally up to the states. The president has no role constitutionally. Just check out the Constitution. He has no role at all in administering midterm elections. And so he\u2019s talking about suspending or canceling the midterm elections. It\u2019s all nonsense and it\u2019s fraudulent. We had midterm congressional elections during the Civil War, we had them in World War II. So we\u2019re not going to cancel them because Donald Trump\u2019s feelings might be hurt again because there\u2019s an electoral landslide coming, repudiating his tariffs and his inability to do anything for the American people and the economy and so on.\u201d<\/p>\n
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