The work being done to prepare for November election threats
Former federal prosecutor and current legal analyst and law professor Joyce Vance interviewed Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., Tuesday on her Civil Discourse site on Substack.
“If we have a free and fair election this year, Trump and his policies are going to get demolished at the polls,” Warner says in the video with Vance. “Not just from Democrats. Democrats, Independents, Republicans have said they didn’t sign up for this.”
Warner, a member of the Senate intelligence committee, had said that the president’s claims in his Thursday night speech about China meddling in the 2020 election were “completely false.”
“This guy will not win a free and fair election, so he will do anything to intervene, to corrupt our elections,” Warner had said.
In the video with Vance, Warner expresses concerns about Trump saying there’s a reason to send troops to the polls. “Even more nefarious” would be for Trump to say some voting machines aren’t valid anymore.
Warner says there are 65 to 75 civil rights groups and voting rights groups, most of which are nonpartisan, that meet every day to prepare the lawsuits and the legal process “if Trump tries to screw with the election” or not certify votes. The record in the courts so far has been amazing, he says.
He says he could use help recruiting more former members of the intelligence, military, and law enforcement communities so if Trump makes outrageous claims, they can say that’s not the case.
Vance says it’s her assessment that pro-voting forces have never been more prepared than they are this election cycle. Warner says he agrees.
Warner urges voters to reach out to family and friends — not just to those with whom we agree — and to vote in record numbers.
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