Comments by "" (@DavidJ222) on "'Connect the dots': Pamela Brown on how Trump's Big Lie will affect future elections" video.
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Let's be clear, the only reason Trump won in 2016 was because millions of Americans didn't vote. The voter turnout in 2016 was only 54%. Voter turnout in 2020 was exceptionally high at 66.8%. If voter turnout had been 66% in 2016, Trump would have lost. And this is why Republicans are engaging in voter suppression.
Again, let's be clear, the GOP isn't trying to stop mass voter fraud, because mass voter fraud doesn't exist, and Republicans know this. Republicans are trying to stop Americans from voting in mass.
DJT openly admitted on fox that making it easier to vote in America would hurt the Republican party.
DJT: “The things they had in there were krazy. They had things, levels of voting that if you’d ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again,” Trump said during an appearance on Fox.
“I don’t want everybody to vote,” Paul Weyrich, an influential conservative activist, said in 1980. “As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.”
Remarks in the Capitol Rotunda at the Signing of the Voting Rights Act.
August 06, 1965
"This act flows from a clear and simple wrong. Its only purpose is to right that wrong. Millions of Americans are denied the right to vote because of their color. This law will ensure them the right to vote. The wrong is one which no American, in his heart, can justify. The right is one which no American, true to our principles, can deny."
"In 1957, as the leader of the majority in the United States Senate, speaking in support of legislation to guarantee the right of all men to vote, I said, "This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies."
"If you do this, then you will find, as others have found before you, that the vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."
-- President Lyndon B. Johnson
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