Trump, seeking executive power over elections, is urged to declare emergency
Pro-Trump activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that claims China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly previewed a plan to mandate voter ID and ban mail ballots in November’s midterm elections, and the activists expect their draft will figure into Trump’s promised executive order on the issue. The White House declined to elaborate on Trump’s plans.
“Under the Constitution, it’s the legislatures and states that really control how a state conducts its elections, and the president doesn’t have any power to do that,” said Peter Ticktin, a Florida lawyer who is advocating for the draft executive order. Ticktin attended the New York Military Academy with Trump and was part of his legal team that filed an unsuccessful 2022 lawsuit accusing Democrats of conspiring to damage him with allegations that his 2016 campaign colluded with Russia.
“But here we have a situation where the president is aware that there are foreign interests that are interfering in our election processes,” Ticktin went on. “That causes a national emergency where the president has to be able to deal with it.”
If going to war with Iran doesn't help the electoral prospects of R's this fall, the goal of the war, will Don resort to more drastic measures? He's already dismissed the overwhelming evidence revealed by Mueller's report that Russia interfered on Don's behalf. So now the focus shifts to China.
The idea is so crazy it smacks of desperation. But give trump's ministry of propaganda time to work on the minions. He'll have them believing all is lost if we don't do what he wants by summertime.