Already looking ahead to the turmoil his re-election could cause, Donald Trump and his allies are reportedly circling an idea to invoke the Insurrection Act on his first day in office, deploying the military to act as domestic law enforcement.
According to a Washington Post report on Sunday, the drafting of such plans has largely been “unofficially outsourced” thus far to a coalition of right-wing think tanks working under the title “Project 2025.” It was identified as an immediate priority for the hypothetical resurrected Trump administration, internal communications obtained by the newspaper showed.
In response to questions from the Post, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung provided a statement: “President Trump is focused on crushing his opponents in the primary election and then going on to beat Crooked Joe Biden,” he said. “President Trump has always stood for law and order, and protecting the Constitution.”
Not technically true. There are only like 6 states that are big enough to have a large impact and not predictable enough to not already know who they’ll vote for.
CA is nearly 20% of the needed electoral votes by itself, it’s just that absolutely everyone knows those are going to go to the Democrats so no one really fights over them. It’s a waste of resources for Dems to defend them or GOP to try to convert them because they aren’t going to budge.
If CA or NY went red, or even came meaningfully close to going red, they would be the most important state in the election.