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Top Dems, voting groups gear up for potential midterm ‘emergency’

rollcall.com · 12dShare

Some congressional Democrats and voting-rights advocates are taking President Donald Trump’s not ruling out a national emergency declaration around November’s midterm elections seriously and literally. Trump raised eyebrows last month during an interview with conservative commentator Wayne Allyn Root, who had suggested to the president that he could simply declare a national emergency before the […]

First report: Wayne Allyn Root: Trump posted “my columns about national security emergency for elections three times in the last two weeks. Why is he doing that if he doesn't plan to actually sign that declaration?” — mediamatters.org, 13d