With Donald Trump facing felony charges over his attempts to overturn the 2020 election, the former president is flooding the airwaves and his social media platform with distortions, misinformation and unfounded conspiracy theories about his defeat.
With Donald Trump facing felony charges over his attempts to overturn the 2020 election, the former president is flooding the airwaves and his social media platform with distortions, misinformation and unfounded conspiracy theories about his defeat.
Ok, but how do they keep those legislatures in place? Even with gerrymandering, if Republicans aren’t voting, that doesn’t help them.
Gerrymandering doesn’t really apply at the state and local level. Most states are majority Republican at the state legislative level.
https://ballotpedia.org/Partisan_composition_of_state_legislatures
And, in the end, if they get what they want and are able to over-ride election results they don’t like, it won’t change.
But that’s my point- they’re only majority Republican because enough Republicans are convinced to still vote for them. If they convince enough of them that voting doesn’t work, even if they made the change that legislatures get to choose the president, they are practically guaranteeing the legislature will fall to the Democrats.
In a lot of these rural districts, there aren’t enough Democrats to matter.
There are if Republicans don’t vote. There are Democrats in those rural districts too. I know because Indiana, where I live, is full of rural districts. Democrats are gaining ground in them too in terms of percentages. They aren’t winning, yet, but if Republicans stop voting?