'Blood in the water': Analyst warns Trump's ICE terror set to backfire on Republicans

Democrats are preparing to capitalize on public fury and backlash against President Donald Trump's efforts to seize control of the voting process, former GOP strategist Rick Wilson told MS NOW's Katy Tur on Tuesday.

This comes amid reporting that Trump is prepared to lean as hard as he can into election issues and his conspiracy theories about "rigged" votes to motivate his base and place new restrictions on voting rights.

"Rick, I wonder if it backfires and it does the opposite," said Tur, speculating that rather than voter suppression, "it motivates more people to get out there earlier and stand in longer lines to prove to him that he does not have the ability to suppress the vote by bullying."

Wilson agreed, saying that this is part of a "bigger narrative that overwhelms, I think, a lot of Trump scare tactics here."

Everything in the data, from primary results to special election results to polling, suggests "Democrats are motivated to come out and vote this year. They are done. They have had enough." Furthermore, said Wilson, many conservative Republicans and independents "have drifted away from Trump."

The upshot, he said, is that "the louder Trump screams about this, the more people scan it and believe it to be a sense of panic on his part because they know what's coming at them. And I think Democrats are starting to smell some blood in the water here. And that's a good thing for them."

Trump's anti-voting legislation, the SAVE America Act, is already "a dead letter in the Senate," added Wilson. But further than that, "other things he'll try to do through THS or DHS and ICE to intimidate people at the polls, I think that is a huge chance to backfire on them, because Americans have had enough of the bullying and enough of the craziness."

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