Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville argued that Republicans will risk public safety, even if it means people will die, to win elections.
“What we got to be careful about is mucking around with this voting. They’re going to try it,” Carville told MSNBC on Wednesday. “All the Republicans admitted: ‘We can’t win if everybody votes.’”
“They’re going to do everything they can to hold onto power,” he said. “They will kill people to stay in power, literally.”
Carville pointed to this week’s Wisconsin primary as evidence. The state went ahead with its elections amid the coronavirus pandemic after a partisan battle over whether or not to move the primary or change its structure.
Republicans insisted on keeping the schedule, winning two legal battles while expressing concerns about election security. The state Supreme Court blocked Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’s bid to delay voting until June, and the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s ruling that gave voters an extra week to return their ballots by mail.
Wisconsin voters wearing face masks and other protective gear waited in long lines Tuesday after the number of polling locations was largely reduced because of the pandemic.
