Trump has said that the United States shouldn’t have midterm elections this year because midterm voters often vote against the president’s party. Democratic congressional leaders have said they expect Trump to disrupt and dispute the midterms.

“It’s some deep psychological thing, but when you win the presidency, you don’t win the midterms,” Trump told Reuters in a recent interview. He then boasted that his presidency had accomplished so much that “when you think about it, we shouldn’t even have an election.”

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told the Associated Press that Democrats are concerned that Trump will try to prevent open and fair midterm elections.

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    He already said before that if the Republicans lose the mid terms, and they would, they will, he would be jailed

    He’s right

    And he will be.

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      They’d need a two thirds majority in the senate to convict him after impeachment.

      No chance. Repub seats are gerrymandered to shit, and while he’s unpopular he’s still more popular than dems in quite a lot of those seats

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      Much as I’d love for that to happen, assuming there are free and fair elections at all: I have a feeling the first words out of the Democratic leadership after winning will be “it’s time for healing and to move forward” (or words to that effect)

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      All of this is one big convoluted effort to stay out of jail while inflicting as much fear and pain as possible.