With the midterm election looming on Nov. 3, Democrats are determined to dismantle any election safeguards aimed at preventing non-citizens from voting.
This includes making sure that voter registration rolls stay dirty.
On Oct. 20, Democratic congressional leaders and several Democratic groups filed a federal lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security for its directive to states to clean up their voter rolls by removing non-citizens.
Democrats oppose cooperation between state officials and federal officials to share databases to ensure that voter eligibility is limited to U.S. citizens.
They argue that it’s a matter of states’ rights. This, from a party that now embraces socialism and has treated the states like vassals under the federal government.
The Constitution designates the states to determine when and where to hold elections, but it does not preclude the federal government from making sure that only U.S. citizens 18 and over can vote in federal elections.
Officials in Arlington County, Virginia, a Democratic stronghold, also filed a lawsuit in federal court against the U.S. Justice Department and other agencies. Their goal is to bar federal agents from coming anywhere near polling places, even to collar illegal alien criminals.
The plaintiffs claim that voters would be intimidated if they spot immigration authorities. Well, certainly anyone ineligible to vote might think twice about doing so upon seeing ICE agents outside the polls. Maybe that’s not such a bad idea.
The lawsuit was filed with the help of two left-wing foundations – Democracy Forward and the Public Rights Project. Both are funded by leftist philanthropy groups, including the Tides network, which is funded by the George Soros family’s Open Society Foundation.
Democracy Forward is chaired by Marc Elias. He was general counsel for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, and his law firm secured the fraudulent Steele dossier, which was used in the Russian collusion hoax against President Donald Trump.
Mr. Elias has played a major role in the Democrats’ ongoing campaign to weaken or overturn election integrity laws wherever they can. So, it’s no wonder that his Democracy Forward is working to ensure that non-citizens feel comfortable going to the polls.
Democrats are also sowing distrust about the validity of the election in case it goes against them.
The Washington Post on Wednesday ran a front-page story alleging that a group of “U.S. national security officials” has been advising state lawmakers that the Trump administration may try to interfere with the midterms.
Democratic strategy appears to be three-fold:
Sow doubts about the election in case Republicans win.
Accuse anyone asking questions about election integrity in Democratic-run jurisdictions to be part of a Trump plan to subvert the process.
Keep repeating the old chestnut about voter ID laws “suppressing the minority vote.” Democrats insist that minorities can’t be expected to have valid IDs like other citizens.
Current polls show a Democratic tide. If the GOP manages to hold the Congress, Democrats will cry foul and somehow blame Mr. Trump for skullduggery.
The Post ran its own survey, along with ABC News and Ipso, and published an article on Wednesday with this headline: “Most Americans doubt Trump would accept GOP losses.”
The poll says that 77 percent of independents and 94 percent of Democrats said they were not confident that Mr. Trump “would accept GOP losses.”
That’s a one-two punch: the scary story with anonymous sources on the front page and the poll just inside.
Speaking of polls, you probably have heard about the Wedgewood Polling scandal. A fake company by that name showed Democrats ahead in key races. Several media outlets took the bait, including the New York Times, MS Now and The Hill.
On Oct. 20, Wedgewood admitted to faking the data after it was outed by polling aggregator FiftyPlusOne. As of this past week, we had yet to learn who funded it.
Wedgewood Polling “gave Democrats multipoint leads beginning in June in all the battleground races: Texas, Michigan, Georgia, Maine, Ohio and Kansas,” according to the Washington Times’ Susan Ferrachio and George Caldwell.
It even made the U.S. Senate race a “toss up” in staunchly GOP Mississippi, which the nonpartisan Cook Political Report says is “Likely Republican.”
Polls can affect outcomes. Voters who think their candidate has no chance might sit it out or cast a ballot for someone else. In the Michigan U.S. Senate primary in June, Wedgewood said Democrat Mallory McMorrow’s support had collapsed to less than 10%. She blames this partly for her loss.
Abdul El-Sayed, the winner, is shown by most polls to be leading Republican Rep. Mike Rogers.
Or maybe he isn’t.
In 2024, three days before the Nov. 5 election, the final Selzer/Des Moines Register poll showed Democrat Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump by 47 percent to 44 percent among likely Iowa voters. Mr. Trump wound up winning by 13 points, a 16-point discrepancy.
At the time, most media reported the poll, which was real, with some at least noting that it differed from other Iowa surveys.
Joe Scarborough of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” however, trumpeted it as “a canary in the coal mine.”
It’s this kind of stuff that podcaster Stephen Miller calls “leftist media wish-casting.”
This column was first published at the Washington Times.
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