| Trump's Desperate Attempt to Bribe Voters Ahead of Election is a New Low At a speech at the GOP's midterm convention in Dallas, Texas yesterday, Donald Trump promised,'if the Republicans win, you win with us and you get $5,000.'Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen, issued the following statement in response:'Even for the notoriously corrupt and lawless Trump, this explicit and desperate attempt to buy votes in the November election is a new low. Trump knows he can't do this, and yet he's attempting to bribe voters with the false promise of cash to help his party win an election, which is antithetical to every principle of American democracy.'Every Republican at the convention and across the country should loudly and vehemently denounce Trump for proposing this dangerous and transparently illegal scheme. The fact that no one has done that yet is cause for deep alarm about the future of American elections.' At a speech at the GOP's midterm convention in Dallas, Texas yesterday, Donald Trump promised,'if the Republicans win, you win with us and you get $5,000.'Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen, issued the following statement in response:'Even for the notoriously corrupt and lawless Trump, this explicit and desperate attempt to buy votes in the November election is a new low. Trump knows he can't do this, and yet he's attempting to bribe voters with the false promise of cash to help his party win an election, which is antithetical to every principle of American democracy.'Every Republican at the convention and across the country should loudly and vehemently denounce Trump for proposing this dangerous and transparently illegal scheme. The fact that no one has done that yet is cause for deep alarm about the future of American elections.' |
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