Remember when it was bad to describe elections as “rigged?” Such terminology was Exhibit A, proving President Donald Trump’s anti-democratic tendencies.
That’s all gone out the window as Democrats protest both Republican redistricting efforts ahead of the midterm elections and the recent Supreme Court Voting Rights Act decision by using the “r-word.”
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) accused the “illegitimate Supreme Court majority” — “It’s the Trump Court,” he said — of hatching a “scheme to suppress the vote and rig the midterm elections.”
“The extremists have completely and totally failed America,” he added. “So they’ve concluded, aided and abetted by the Trump Court, that they have to cheat to win.”
“MAGA has rigged the system,” Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) wrote on social media after the Virginia Supreme Court tossed the 10-1 Democratic map on the grounds that the referendum in which it was approved violated the state Constitution. Newsom, a leading
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