Trump Believes Giving Black Voters Access to Voting Is Stealing the Election

By Stephen A. Crockett Jr., theroot.com

President Trump doesn’t want people to mail in votes and he doesn’t want a Los Angeles suburb with a large black population’s votes to count. I’m starting to think that the president of the United States doesn’t want black people to vote in the upcoming election. It’s almost as if he’s a dishonest racist who is trying to steal the election. That can’t be it, can it?

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Over the weekend, Trump found time to insert himself into “the special election in California’s 25th Congressional District, which was vacated by former Rep. Katie Hill, D-Calif., who resigned last fall,” Salon reports.

The president believes that California Gov. Gavin Newsome, a Democrat, is trying to steal the election by opening a new polling site in Lancaster.

“So in California, the Democrats, who fought like crazy to get all mail-in only ballots, and succeeded, have just opened a voting booth in the most Democrat area in the State,” Trump tweeted, Salon reports. “They are trying to steal another election. It’s all rigged out there. These votes must not count. SCAM!”

Salon notes Lancaster is not the “most Democrat area” in California. “The city’s mayor, Rex Parris, is a Republican. Lancaster is also represented by two Republicans in the state legislature, The Washington Post noted.”

What’s probably upsetting Trump the most is that the new polling area is located in a large African-American population, and we know how Trump feels about “the blacks.” While Trump believes that opening a polling place in a black neighborhood is a direct attack on his administration, it turns out that the move was really just to allow black folks who didn’t have a polling place in their district the right to vote easily.

And, Parris, the Republican mayor, who quite possibly believes that black people are his constituents as well, supported the move…

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