Call it election year Jiu Jitsu...Democrats are trying to flip the script on Republicans on the issue of election integrity. Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA) shared the Dems' latest talking point on NBC's "Meet the Press" last weekend. When asked a loaded question by host Kristen Welker about whether he believed the midterm elections will be free and fair, Khanna replied, "I have confidence we will have an election...but I believe they will use every tool in their toolbox to try to interfere with it."
Welker's question was in the context of efforts by the Trump administration and Republicans to ensure secure elections by seeking state voter rolls, and the recent FBI search warrant served at a Georgia election office. Khanna's reply signals Democrats will continue to resist any efforts at election integrity, while accusing Republicans of cheating.
Christian Collins, conservative commentator and founder of the Texas Youth Summit, believes Democrats are trying to deflect from their own pattern of election fraud. "They want to import voters from third-world countries, then get them hooked on subsidies once they get here," he tells KTRH. "And in many states like New York and California, those people are able to vote because it's illegal to ask for voter IDs."
Several blue states are in a legal standoff with the White House for refusing to release their voter rolls for review. "Hopefully the Supreme Court will rule on this eventually," says Collins. "Because we've got to do everything we can to purge the voter rolls of illegals, dead people, and people who have moved out, whether it's in a swing state or a blue state."
The bottom line, according to Collins, is the GOP cannot allow Dems to intimidate them with these election interference allegations. "We're not interfering with the election, we're just trying to make it so it is fair and they aren't cheating," he says. "But they are gonna cheat, and they're gonna keep cheating if we don't stop them...so we've got to do everything we can to stop 'em."
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