Fulton County was no random choice. Georgia is where Black opposition to Trump became governing power.
Black voters made up about 29% of the 2020 electorate; nearly nine in 10 supported Biden.
Fulton gave Biden an advantage approaching 243,000 votes in a state he won by 11,779.
Trump carried Georgia in 2024. That victory did not end his pursuit of Fulton.
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Trump’s justice department has lost its first 15 district-court attempts to obtain states’ unredacted voter rolls. Having failed in court, he propagandized on television.
The day before the speech, House Republicans attached Trump’s Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or Save America Act, to a state department spending bill and passed it, 217–209.
The bill would impose new identification requirements on mail voting, require documentary proof of citizenship to register and compel every state to send its complete federal voter list to the Department of Homeland Security within 30 days.
Trump ordered DHS to direct states to remove alleged noncitizens.
On Friday, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin claimed that a database had identified more than 250,000 potential noncitizens registered in California, New Jersey, Nevada and Pennsylvania.
His department offered no evidence.
The database can misidentify naturalized citizens; last month, a federal judge blocked the revamped system from checking voter rolls, finding it less accurate and a threat to privacy and voting rights.
Trump can neither erase his loss nor the Black political power essential to it. So he no longer treats the people who defeated him as voters.
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He treats them as suspects. To this president, any election he loses is a crime scene.
