{"id":13074,"date":"2026-03-06T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/trump-moves-to-control-who-counts-the-votes\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T19:30:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:30:36","slug":"trump-moves-to-control-who-counts-the-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/trump-moves-to-control-who-counts-the-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump moves to control who counts the votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3ba4ce41-a358-5d9b-b360-ebd942a1f4df&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"1680\" height=\"958\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The advantage of democracy is that voting gives the average person a small piece of real power \u2013 it is the bedrock of America\u2019s strength. Any decree or law that takes away the vote leaves citizens powerless.<\/p>\n<p>Trump will never allow an inquiry into the 2020 election because he knows he would lose. His popularity is sinking, and attorneys are abandoning the DOJ like rats leaving a sinking ship. He knows his party would lose votes, putting Congress at risk of flipping. His claim that thousands of illegal immigrants voted for Biden is a completely manufactured lie \u2013 but his base loves that lie, which is why they support it. His followers will never fact check anything he says. They hate that his loss to Biden was legitimate. Love the lies, hate the truth.<\/p>\n<p>Because he cannot afford to lose, Trump is attempting to take control of elections. He is taking a page from Josef Stalin\u2019s playbook. Stalin said it makes no difference who people vote for \u2013 what matters is who counts the votes. Trump wants to make sure he counts the votes. We voters must make sure he doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is like Venezuela\u2019s Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, who after counting the votes claimed to have won their last election, yet steadfastly refused to let anyone examine the ballots. Similarly, Trump won\u2019t allow anyone to inspect the 2020 ballots \u2013 just as he refuses to release the Epstein files.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roger Woody<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-557e8be6c189af185d666aeb07907377\">Mancos<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The advantage of democracy is that voting gives the average person a small piece of real power \u2013 it is the bedrock of America\u2019s strength. Any decree or law that takes away the vote leaves citizens powerless. Trump will never allow an inquiry into the 2020 election because he knows he would lose. His [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[125],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-13074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-newsletter-opinion"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18799,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13074\/revisions\/18799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13074"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=13074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}