WASHINGTON: Finest generally known as the fictional setting for The Simpsons cartoon sequence despite the fact that there are 67 actual American cities with the identical identify, Springfield, Ohio, is bracing for a proposed Donald Trump go to at the same time as he’s ratcheting up his marketing campaign in opposition to current immigrants, saying Democrats are enlisting them to vote within the upcoming Presidential elections.
So petrified of his go to is the city — already a tinderbox of bomb threats after he unfold the canard about immigrants there consuming pet canine and cats — that even its Republican mayor Rob Rue is pleading with him to not come. Ohio’s Republican governor Mike DeWine has additionally debunked the story amid rising disquiet within the GOP institution over Trump and his operating mate JD Vance taking excessive positions endangering the Republican majority in Congress, which additionally goes to polls on November 5.
However along with his opponent Kamala Harris edging forward in most polls, Trump is in no temper to retool his marketing campaign now centering on the purported immigrant invasion of America which he argues will skew the outcomes of the November elections. On Saturday, the previous President posted a manipulated video on social media displaying Kamala Harris welcoming immigrants streaming throughout the border and asking them to vote for her.
The MAGA supremo has not introduced a date for his Springfield go to (he has additionally mentioned he’ll go to Aurora, Colorado, the place he has falsely mentioned Venezuelan gangs have taken over the town). However forward of his proposed go to, his surrogate Vivek Ramaswamy held a city corridor there on Friday, blaming the Biden-Harris dispensation for the migrant disaster whereas skirting the MAGA canard that Haitian immigrants are consuming native canine and cats.
Regardless of little or no proof and only a few situations of unlawful immigrants voting within the Presidential elections, Trump has doubled down on the conspiracy and urged Republican lawmakers to tie a laws (SAVE act) geared toward barring non-citizens from voting to funding the federal government, a transfer that might end in a authorities shutdown. “Democrats are registering Unlawful Voters by the TENS OF THOUSANDS, as we communicate – They are going to be voting within the 2024 Presidential Election, and so they shouldn’t be allowed to. Solely American Residents needs to be voting in our Most Vital Election in Historical past, or any Election!” Trump posted on social media this week.
It’s already unlawful for non-citizens to vote in US elections. Those that violate the legislation face jail time and deportation. The truth is, a fee appointed by Trump after he misplaced the favored vote in 2016 to analyze the difficulty disbanded with out figuring out a single case of a noncitizen casting a vote, despite the fact that U.S. immigration authorities mentioned they indicted 19 overseas nationals for unlawful voting. Violators included residents from Japan, Germany, and Italy.
Many ballot analysts and think-tanks have mentioned non-citizen voting will not be an large subject and doesn’t alter election outcomes. Trump’s grandstanding is ostensibly geared toward casting doubts on the authenticity of the 2024 elections, the place the Presidential final result apart (which is set by the electoral faculty), he’s once more anticipated to endure an embarrassing loss by way of standard vote. He misplaced by almost three million votes in 2016 and by seven million in 2020.
About one in ten US voters (totaling round 24 million) is a foreign-born immigrant who has grow to be a naturalized citizen and is due to this fact eligible to vote. Some MAGA radicals have argued that solely US-born residents needs to be eligible to vote.
By the way, The Simpsons sequence includes a fictional Indian immigrant named Apu Nahasapeemapetilon. He’s a naturalized US citizen who runs a cornerstore in Springfield, and he additionally has a PhD in pc science.
So petrified of his go to is the city — already a tinderbox of bomb threats after he unfold the canard about immigrants there consuming pet canine and cats — that even its Republican mayor Rob Rue is pleading with him to not come. Ohio’s Republican governor Mike DeWine has additionally debunked the story amid rising disquiet within the GOP institution over Trump and his operating mate JD Vance taking excessive positions endangering the Republican majority in Congress, which additionally goes to polls on November 5.
However along with his opponent Kamala Harris edging forward in most polls, Trump is in no temper to retool his marketing campaign now centering on the purported immigrant invasion of America which he argues will skew the outcomes of the November elections. On Saturday, the previous President posted a manipulated video on social media displaying Kamala Harris welcoming immigrants streaming throughout the border and asking them to vote for her.
The MAGA supremo has not introduced a date for his Springfield go to (he has additionally mentioned he’ll go to Aurora, Colorado, the place he has falsely mentioned Venezuelan gangs have taken over the town). However forward of his proposed go to, his surrogate Vivek Ramaswamy held a city corridor there on Friday, blaming the Biden-Harris dispensation for the migrant disaster whereas skirting the MAGA canard that Haitian immigrants are consuming native canine and cats.
Regardless of little or no proof and only a few situations of unlawful immigrants voting within the Presidential elections, Trump has doubled down on the conspiracy and urged Republican lawmakers to tie a laws (SAVE act) geared toward barring non-citizens from voting to funding the federal government, a transfer that might end in a authorities shutdown. “Democrats are registering Unlawful Voters by the TENS OF THOUSANDS, as we communicate – They are going to be voting within the 2024 Presidential Election, and so they shouldn’t be allowed to. Solely American Residents needs to be voting in our Most Vital Election in Historical past, or any Election!” Trump posted on social media this week.
It’s already unlawful for non-citizens to vote in US elections. Those that violate the legislation face jail time and deportation. The truth is, a fee appointed by Trump after he misplaced the favored vote in 2016 to analyze the difficulty disbanded with out figuring out a single case of a noncitizen casting a vote, despite the fact that U.S. immigration authorities mentioned they indicted 19 overseas nationals for unlawful voting. Violators included residents from Japan, Germany, and Italy.
Many ballot analysts and think-tanks have mentioned non-citizen voting will not be an large subject and doesn’t alter election outcomes. Trump’s grandstanding is ostensibly geared toward casting doubts on the authenticity of the 2024 elections, the place the Presidential final result apart (which is set by the electoral faculty), he’s once more anticipated to endure an embarrassing loss by way of standard vote. He misplaced by almost three million votes in 2016 and by seven million in 2020.
About one in ten US voters (totaling round 24 million) is a foreign-born immigrant who has grow to be a naturalized citizen and is due to this fact eligible to vote. Some MAGA radicals have argued that solely US-born residents needs to be eligible to vote.
By the way, The Simpsons sequence includes a fictional Indian immigrant named Apu Nahasapeemapetilon. He’s a naturalized US citizen who runs a cornerstore in Springfield, and he additionally has a PhD in pc science.
