Trump Administers GOP Convention Pledge to 'Cheat Like Hell' — 'I Don''t Care If I''m Registered or Not'

At the Republican Party's unprecedented two-day midterm convention in Dallas, 53 days before the November elections, President Trump closed his headline speech by administering a loyalty pledge to the crowd. After declaring "we want honesty in our elections," he led thousands of attendees to pledge allegiance "to the greatest president in the history of the United States," then vowed on camera: "I will go out with my family, my friends. I will do it anyway. I don't care if I'm registered or not. I'm going to try and cheat like hell like they do." The instruction — delivered by a president who has spent years claiming his opponents "cheat" — was widely reported as projection made policy: an explicit call for supporters to commit the very fraud he uses to justify nationalizing election control. The pledge came days after SCOTUS blocked his mail-ballot restrictions and amid his administration's multi-state push to purge voter rolls through the DHS SAVE database.