Full Frontal’s VP debate special attempted to give some life to the showdown between Mike Pence and Tim Kaine, but it’s tough to pull blood from the dad joke stone when the next day has brought more Trump news to grab everybody’s attention. So instead of spending too much time on the junior debate, Bee devotes her second special to discussing the possible horrors of a Trump presidency and what his supporters are doing to ensure that happens.
Bee sent the Full Frontal team out to a Trump rally to get to the bottom of something that the candidate has warned about since the early days of his campaign: voter fraud and election rigging. He’s even stated that if he loses in November, the entire thing will have likely been rigged and he might have to cause a fuss. But to avoid that, he’s enlisted his supporters to be unofficial Trump Poll Watchers, making sure everything is going right at the polls. It might sound like intimidation, but that’s apparently not the case according to Trump’s official website.
It is definitely reassuring to hear one of the folks supporting the GOP nominee say they’re going to take their country back through the vote or by another revolution.
But what if Trump wins? What can we expect? That’s where Bee’s second segment comes into play, showing that we already have a working example right here in America — no need to travel all the way to the Philippines. Maine has been in the headlines plenty this election season thanks to Governor Paul LePage’s volatile language towards minorities and his desires to have duels with state lawmakers while leaving them profanity-laced voice mail messages. Be calls LePage the “beta Trump” who was elected in 2010 and he has compared himself to Trump before the GOP nominee became popular.
What he’s done since then has inspired a string of public outrage, but it hasn’t hurt him being reelected. The reason for this isn’t because he’s popular according to Bee and the Maine gubernatorial election results. Instead, it’s due to the presence of those dastardly third party candidates taking votes away from his Democratic opponent. If this sounds familiar, both the complaint and the situation, then you can see why Maine really is a good example of what we can expect from a Trump presidency.
(Via Full Frontal)
