Leader Schumer Floor Remarks Announcing Senate Democrats’ Election Protection Task Force Will Join Experts To Strategize Responses To Potential Republican Attacks To Undermine[...]

Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke on the Senate floor announcing that Senate Democrats' Election Protection Task Force will strategize with election experts to counter potential scenarios that would undermine our democracy. Below are Senator Schumer's remarks, which can also be viewed here:

As Trump continues to wage war on free and fair elections in America, Senate Democrats' Election Protection Task Force is gearing up to protect our democracy.

Later today, our task force will convene to strategize on our responses to potential threats to America's elections.

The Senators and a first-rate team of election experts on our task force will simulate different scenarios, including interference operations from a foreign adversary, a Trump deployment of federal agents to polling places, and law enforcement agents seizing ballots from local election officials.

Our task force is keeping Trump up at night because he knows the dire straits he and his party are in as the midterms approach. Instead of changing his disastrous, deeply unpopular policies, Trump has pledged to deploy "an Election Integrity Army in every single State."

But in Trump's eyes, he believes that an election only has integrity if he wins it. And he doesn't care if he cheats to do it. In fact, he likes cheating.

Republicans are already ignoring your wages, your health care, your rent, your grocery bill, your freedom. Democrats won't let Republicans ignore your vote too.

Democrats will be ready with lawyers, observers, and response teams to respond the moment Trump or his allies try to interfere with our elections. We will be ready, and we will preserve the integrity of American elections, something so sacred for 250 years.

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