How the GOP Is Working to Steal the Midterms (w/ Joel McCleary and Mark Medish) | TCHR

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Midterm elections in the United States are scheduled for November 3. Concerns that the elections might be canceled, coerced or subverted at any stage of the process are becoming increasingly valid as the Trump administration takes steps to possibly disenfranchise voters or otherwise control the outcome to prevent a Democratic Party majority in Congress. Chris Hedges invited two political analysts with deep histories in Washington, Joel McCleary and Mark Medish, to this episode of The Chris Hedges Report to speak about a series of articles they published in The Spectator, titled “Dancing in the Dark,” in which they describe the wide range of tools available to the current administration to maintain power. Medish warns, “What we see is that he’s put in place a whole array of worrying mechanisms to interfere with the process and, at a minimum, to claim afterwards that the election was flawed, so the results are not valid.” McCleary and Medish describe the Trump administration strategy as one of keeping all options open. These include preventing people from voting, intimidating voters, and even targeted challenges aimed at particular races to prevent certain members of Congress fro