Comments on: Trump’s speech this evening

By: ja

ja — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 05:47:47 +0000

And then there’s the elections in California that drag on and on inspiring zero confidence that they are legit.

By: huxley

huxley — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:13:58 +0000

I say that election reform is as big an issue as civil rights. It’s not a one and done proposition. It will be a long hard fight against entreched opposition. There will be setbacks.

Eyes on the prize!

We shall overcome!

By: bill

bill — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:37:17 +0000

Bauxite misses the point (perhaps deliberately). Trump said nothing about changing the results of the 2020 election. He was explicitly laying out the basis for why we need to get serious about protecting our elections. The Chinese hacked 200 MILLION voters records, which enable all sorts of mischief, let alone the blue states deliberately making it easy or non citizens to vote.

He wants the Save America Act passed to make it much harder to cheat. Are you against that Bauxite??

By: Oldflyer

Oldflyer — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:08:32 +0000

I am so old that I can remember back to 2025, when good people were saying “I am tired of so much winning”.
Well, they have a respite now.

By: Bauxite

Bauxite — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:44:47 +0000

TJ – You remind me of the Democrats in 2016 who managed to convince themselves that Obama could install Garland on the Supreme Court without the Senate if only he wanted it hard enough.

They had a theory too.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:32:45 +0000

Perhaps the question ought to be:
“WHY were ‘Donald Trump and his baggage…never going to be able to make meaningful progress on election integrity.’”

By: TJ

TJ — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:24:02 +0000

Bauxite asserts “ Hard Truth: Donald Trump and his baggage were never going to be able to make meaningful progress on election integrity.”

Actually, no. That hard truth is looking soft. I didn’t hit the link, but I saw a headline reading Rs “have the votes to pass the SAVE America Act with 50+VP Vance, using recission.”

This avoids nuking the filibuster rule, of course.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:18:51 +0000

Hope I’m wrong, but this seems to have flown under the radar:

“THE USES OF VIOLENCE”—
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/07/the-uses-of-violence.php

By: Bauxite

Bauxite — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:18:24 +0000

And to follow-up on my last point, see this from the Washington Examiner:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4652897/trump-team-talked-him-out-crazier-claims-voting-security-speech/

This term is a disaster.

By: Bauxite

Bauxite — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:57:49 +0000

This is a three step process:

(1) What, precisely, is Trump alleging.

(2) Does the evidence support the allegations?

(3) Was the proven activity sufficient to change the result of the 2020 election?

That’s really all there is to it. The problem is that I can’t find any analysis anywhere that hits those points in a Joe Friday type of way. Trumper sources are hyping this the same way the Dems hyped “Russia, Russia, Russia” in 2017. Pretty much everyone else is dismissing his speech out of hand.

Hard Truth: Donald Trump and his baggage were never going to be able to make meaningful progress on election integrity. If the GOP wanted a world-class whiner about election integrity, they picked the right guy. If the actually wanted to accomplish something, well, this ain’t it.