Trump Tells Christian Voters They 'Won’t Have to Vote Anymore' if Elected
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Former President Donald Trump told a Christian audience they “won't have to vote” in four years if he is reelected as President, drawing mixed reactions across the spectrum.
The Details: Trump said he would fix the issues that prevent Republicans from winning elections, thus implying a lack of need to vote. Trump made the comments at the Turning Point Action's Believers' Summit on Friday.
Key Quotes: Trump said, “I will secure our elections. Our goal will be, as I said, one day voting with paper ballots, proof of citizenship, and a thing called voter ID.” Moments later, he added, “You have to get out and vote. And again, Christians — get out and vote! Just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what? It’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine.”
How The Media Covered It: The story was mostly covered by outlets from the left and center, and not much by the right. Many outlets highlighted the narrative put forth by Democrats that Trump is a threat to democracy, or Trump’s history of rhetoric that many have called authoritarian.
Right vs. Left: Breitbart (Right bias) criticized The Atlantic (Left bias) for a feature it ran that criticized Trump and “some of his base” as “authoritarian.” Breitbart also included a full transcript of Trump’s comments, while most other outlets did not.
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Yesterday, former President Donald Trump told a group of supporters that they won’t have to vote again if they elect him to the presidency. “You won’t have to do it anymore,” Trump said at the Turning Point Believers’ Summit in Florida. “It’ll be fixed; it’ll be fine; you won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians.”
Trump’s remarks represent an extraordinary departure from democratic norms in the United States—rarely if ever has a major party’s presidential candidate directly stated his aim to make elections meaningless, a notorious hallmark of autocracy.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told Christians on Friday that if they vote for him this November, "in four years, you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good, you're not gonna have to vote."
It was not clear what the former president meant by his remarks, in an election campaign where his Democratic opponents accuse him of being a threat to democracy, and after his attempt to overturn his 2020 defeat to President Joe Biden, an effort that led to the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan....
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The Atlantic has published an article claiming that former President Donald Trump promised Christian supporters that he will end elections if he takes office in 2025.
The Atlantic‘s Brian Klass wrote:
Yesterday, former President Donald Trump told a group of supporters that they won’t have to vote again if they elect him to the presidency. “You won’t have to do it anymore,” Trump said at the Turning Point Believers’ Summit in Florida. “It’ll be fixed; it’ll be fine; you won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians.”
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