President Donald Trump seems to be planning the biggest election-rigging scheme ever seen in America — and he’s not even trying to hide it, a columnist wrote Wednesday.
Trump spoke Tuesday about working with Texas’ leaders to redraw the state’s congressional boundaries — admitting he was looking for it to help the GOP pick up five seats in the midterms.
The move is “potentially unlawful,” wrote MSNBC’s Ja’han Jones.
But the president is already suggesting that it could be rolled out in other states too.
At its crux, the move aims to target House seats with large Black and Latino populations, The Texas Tribune reported.
“You’ll note that this desperate push comes as recent polling shows that Trump’s mass deportation agenda has sparked a backlash from Americans — and after his signing of a widely unpopular budget that is primed to strip health care and food benefits from millions of Americans while blowing up the federal deficit to fund tax cuts that will largely favor the rich,” Jones wrote
“In other words, this redistricting push seems like an obvious attempt to insulate Trump and his party.”
But if he’s able to do it, the threat to the nation’s democracy is massive, he said. He called it a “seemingly blatant plan to rig the 2026 elections.
“Some liberals are calling on Democratic-led states to gerrymander their maps in response, should the Texas plan succeed,” he wrote.
“ Indeed, that could be necessary to undercut the GOP’s power grab. But that reality also underscores Trump’s corrosive power.
“The openness with which the president of the United States and his allies are seeking to maintain power is clearly chipping away at the nation’s democratic foundation.”