Why Would a Candidate Not Need Votes?

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

Candidates run for public office for a variety of reasons.  Sometimes they are in it for the power and control over their own lives and the lives of others, sometimes for the glory and recognition, sometimes for the money, or at a minimum, medical insurance and a good retirement, and sometimes people even run for office to make life better and provide more opportunities for those they were elected to serve.  Regardless of their motives for being in politics, the one thing that all office-seekers have in common is the pursuit of the almighty vote.  Votes are what ultimately get the politician into office and onto the public payroll - at least in a democracy.

But now we have a politician who is running for President of the United States who is telling his voters that they don't have to vote because he doesn't need their votes.  

Donald John Trump, the elderly convicted felon who is the GOP candidate for President, was on Fox and Friends last Thursday where he gave the following "instruction" to his voters:

"My instruction:  We don't need the votes, I have so many votes."

It was a sentiment that Trump had been expressing for months, going back as far as last October during primary season when he told an audience in New Hampshire:

"Don't worry about voting.    The voting - we got plenty of votes"

Trump also made essentially the same remark at rallies in Detroit and Virginia.

And this past Thursday he said it again on Fox and Friends.  What does that even mean?  Trump is seldom truthful about anything, and sometimes his stream-of-consciousness rambling drifts far off into weirdness like his oft-repeated and disjointed comments about sharks and the fictional cannibal, Hannibal Lecter.  

Last Thursday Donald Trump was telling his supporters not to worry about voting because he didn't need the votes.  But a day later his tune changed.

On Friday Trump was speaking to the "Christian" group, Turning Point USA at their "Believers Summit 2024" in West Palm Beach, Florida, and he told them that they would have to get out and vote, but that they would never have to do it again.   Trump said:

"You won't have to do it anymore, four more years, you know what?  It'll be fixed, it'll be fine.  You've got to get out and vote.  In four years you don't have to vote again.  We'll have it fixed so good, you're not going to have to vote."

Say what?  Trump almost makes more sense when he is prattling on about Hannibal the cannibal.

The media would rather overlook Trump's gobbledegook than examine it or try to determine what he is actually trying to say.   Is he saying that he is so extremely popular that he will have more votes on Election Day than he needs?  Is he saying that one of his nitwit Nazi Field Marshals from his last administration has told him that the election will be decided by something other than voters - such as the military - so don't worry about votes?  And is "We'll have it fixed so good, you're not going to have to vote." as ominous as it sounds?

What is behind a politician telling voters that he does not need their votes - or, that they will have to vote this time, but never again?   Is it senility, or delusion, or is it something sinister signaling an end to democracy?  

Why would a candidate not need votes?

We need to be finding out.