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A former Republican congressman and ex-supporter of President Donald Trump says that his former GOP colleagues are \u201cgoing to go down\u201d with their commander-in-chief, despite his flaws.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI’ll tell you what, Jim \u2014 you and I have talked about this before,\u201d former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) told reporter Jim Acosta on Acosta\u2019s Substack. \u201cThere are so many things that just make me angry and sad about what Trump’s done to this country, but I think it is this more than anything: his attack on our elections process. We have the safest, most secure elections in the world. And damn near all of my former Republican colleagues say that and believe that \u2014 but they cannot say it publicly.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cThink about what Trump is saying: that someone who goes to vote in person on Election Day at 12 noon, that vote counts \u2014 but somebody who gets their ballot in and submits their mail-in ballot by 12 noon on Election Day, that ballot doesn’t count. This is his continued effort to attack our elections. And if you attack our elections, you’re our enemy. We know what he’s trying to do for the midterms. We know what he’s trying to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Acosta then asked Walsh if Republicans will ever stand up to Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are bits and pieces on the outside, but generally they’re all sticking with him,\u201d Walsh told Acosta. \u201cThey had an effort to vote against his war, and even in a non-binding resolution, [Louisiana Sen. Bill] Cassidy and [Kentucky Sen.] Rand Paul took their vote back. They generally stand with him on everything Their opposition to the SAVE Act is not really the SAVE Act. It’s the institutionalists in the Senate who don’t want to get rid of the filibuster.\u201d<\/p>\n

He concluded, \u201cGenerally, they’re all with him and they’re going to go down with him in November.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump is reportedly \u201clivid\u201d that a Supreme Court judge he appointed, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, did not support his effort to stop mail-in votes from arriving after Election Day. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe is completely livid over the mail-in ballot ruling,\u201d CNN senior White House correspondent Kristen Holmes explained on Monday. \u201cAnd of course, part of this is about the justices who decided to rule against him in this case. Just a reminder \u2014 this was the Republican National Committee challenging a Mississippi law that allowed mail-in ballots that came in after Election Day to still be counted.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile on MS NOW Hogan Gidley, a former White House deputy press secretary for Trump, was met with laughter when he tried to deflect from Trump\u2019s saying that he views affordable housing legislation with a \u201cyawn\u201d until he gets his voter regulation law passed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do think, though, he is focused on making sure that our elections have some semblance of faith, trust and confidence, which they have been losing in this country for decades,\u201d Gidley said. \u201cYou’ll remember around 65 percent of Republicans did not believe that Joe Biden won the election.\u201d<\/p>\n

The studio laughed when Gidley claimed Trump is not obsessed with stopping voters who he believes will oppose him.<\/p>\n

Dan Vicu\u00f1a, the Senior Policy Director for Voting and Fair Representation at the nonprofit good government group Common Cause, told AlterNet earlier this month that Trump\u2019s attempts to regulate voting are arguably illegal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think some of these attempts to federalize, to nationalize elections are clearly illegal,\u201d Vicu\u00f1a told AlterNet. \u201cYou’ve seen some of that overreach already struck down \u2014 attempts to order independent agencies to force a strict voter ID requirement on people. That has been rejected. Common Cause is in court challenging the latest executive order to turn the United States Postal Service into some election administration agency and to create a further bureaucratic layer to make it more difficult to vote by mail. In terms of the president’s authority to order around USPS, it’s illegal. In terms of USPS’s authority to become some sort of national election administration agency, it far exceeds the legal authority that Congress gave to the postal service. The statute describing what kind of work the postal service would do is about postal service work \u2014 processing mail and selling stamps. It has nothing to do with election administration.\u201d<\/p>\n

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