The Democratic Party seems to have connected the dots with the Republican Party’s midterm election strategy, a political analyst has claimed.
A series of special election shortcomings for the GOP may have served as a sign of things to come, but there are a few clues CNNanalyst Zachary B. Wolf says that Dem strategists have picked up on. One major giveaway could be the appearance of a Donald Trump ally at the scene of an FBI electoral ballot seizure.
Wolf wrote, “There is also the strange appearance of Trump’s Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard at the FBI’s seizure of old 2020 ballots in Fulton County, Georgia, in January.
“She has been much more vocal in rehashing the 2020 election and playing to Trump’s belief, not based on fact, that he was the victim of fraud, than she has been on telling Americans about whatever intelligence may have justified Trump’s war on Iran.
“The Washington Post reported in February on a draft executive order written by Trump allies. It envisions Trump seizing on the idea that China interfered in the 2020 election to exert unprecedented emergency control over the coming election.”
Other dots were seemingly connected by the party in the lead-up to the midterm elections, with Trump at the center of the strategy. Despite a dwindling approval rating, some Dem reps believe the president is pushing to keep the GOP in contention at the elections.
“Some Democrats see a master plan by Trump to guarantee power for Republicans despite his own flagging approval ratings,” Wolf wrote.
“I think these are all tools of how the president is trying to think about a much larger plan, which is if you cannot hold on to power through democratic elections, then adjust democratic elections,” Maryland’s Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat, told CNN’s Dana Bash this week.
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