General Discussion

There once was a speech on the Hill,
By Donald Trump with formidable will,
He warned with a grin,
“Dems only win
If cheating just foots the bill.”

He rallied his party to say,
That fraud lurks wherever Dems play,
“Mail ballots must go!
Bring ID to show!”
Thus paving the GOP way.

They branded a bill with some flair,
The SAVE Act—“secure and quite fair!”
Yet critics all claim
Its practical aim
Is trimming who gets to vote there.

From now until ballots are cast,
Each stump speech will echo it fast,
“A rigged, crooked scheme!
A radical dream!”
A message intended to last.

The Dems, for their part, will insist
The economy tops every list,
With wages and price
Their central device—
While voters decide what’s amiss.

The airwaves will buzz day and night,
As pundits prepare for the fight,
With rhetoric loud,
To rally the crowd
And frame it as wrong versus right.

If margins are slender and tight,
And Dems claim a narrow-scope right,
Will JD Vance then stand
To certify as planned—
Or kindle another long night?

Are questions like these out of line,
Or signs of a system’s design?
In a republic’s test,
The voters know best—
And history tallies the fine.

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