It’s ‘Moving Day’ for 25 million Americans — GOP group wants an eviction notice on the White House

08/12/2020 1:13 pm ET • Nellie English

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“Very soon, it’s moving day for 25 million Americans.” So begins the latest Lincoln Project ad, which addresses the critical housing shortage as Trump bulldozes ahead with the evictions of millions of families who can no longer afford to pay their rent.

The direct losses of a roof over one’s head will be devastating. There will also be dangerous consequences for the election, as the evictions could result in many people losing their address and therefore potentially, the right to vote.

The #TrumpEvictions are beginning

The Trump evictions are starting, and the video shows recently evicted families carrying boxes out of their former homes. Lines of the newly homeless are seen shuffling to buses to look for help. The sound of a ticking clock plays in the background to chilling effect.

The makers behind this hard-hitting ad are the Lincoln Project, the group of anti-Trump Republicans led by Kellyanne Conway’s husband George Conway. Past videos have targeted Trump’s dawdling pandemic response or his threatening to cut funding to schools that refuse to reopen.

This time, the target is the President’s response to the foreclosures faced by tens of millions of ordinary Americans who have been failed by the system.

Trump fails to protect Americans from eviction

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Trump claims to be protecting Americans from losing their homes to foreclosures. He signed four executive orders for coronavirus relief. One was pertaining to preventing evictions. The order makes no promise of financial relief to aid those struggling Americans to pay rent, food, or support their families. The COVID-19 pandemic indirectly caused 40 million Americans to lose their jobs. More evictions are coming.

The President has publicly expressed his support — and pressured Congress to extend the previous eviction ban. His latest executive order is not an eviction moratorium, however. Instead, authorities will evaluate whether the evictions should be stopped to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

No financial help is coming.

25 million?! Everyone affected should resolve to simply stay put until physically removed by law enforcement. There’s no way our local police and sheriffs office can handle removing 25 million people out of their homes in any kind of timely manner.

— a_Radiant_Thaw (@Big_Babbles) August 11, 2020

I am a 59 year old white suburban mom. I have watched helplessly as decades of working to build a stable home obliterated in less than six months. Got bottom feeders willing to buy me out to save my credit! You know for possible home purchase in the future. #TrumpHasNoPlan

— NW Montana Blue Voter🌊 (@KatieCatUSA) August 11, 2020

Real Estate vultures will start circling homes

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The rich will get richer.

in 2008/09 when foreclosures were at their zenith Mnuchin & his buddies bought thousands of foreclosed properties including apt bldgs for often just unpaid taxes, they bought directly from mortgage lenders & sold them when the housing mkt recovered at huge profits

— Kathy Byrne (@kab_fair) August 11, 2020

They win big. These are just opportunities for the rich to get their hands on more cheap properties.

— TikTok Lover (@aTikTokLover) August 11, 2020

Rich investors will buy a lot of empty properties and then resell them at higher prices once the economy is recovering. Which effectively will also take thousands of houses and appartments of the market and drive up rental prices as well.

— Uchūjin (@ewikiskafa) August 11, 2020

Real estate moguls, supported by Trump’s tax cuts and Covid support money will buy all those at a ridiculously low amount and later sell them.
Big profit.

— ancianelo (@ancianelo) August 11, 2020

‘TrumpVilles’ could follow

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After the evictions, where will people go?

I fully expect Trumpvilles to begin popping up all over the country, similar to Hoovervilles during the Great Depression. It is inevitable that this will happen if millions become homeless. Shelters will be overrun. They will have no where else to go.

— Melody Winters (@melodywinters85) August 11, 2020

And just what we need in the middle of a pandemic….

— Dar Dronet Resists (@DronetDr) August 11, 2020

And then the #trumpdepression
starts.

— Mark (@baagman) August 11, 2020

The President has personally experienced eviction….as a landlord

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People are ready to pin a notice to the White House door.

With this POtuS, cruelty is always the point…We will all serve Trump with his eviction notice on 3rd November 2020. Happy comeuppance Donnie! pic.twitter.com/4PWsAax7zq

— Raziel Abulafia (@AbuRaziel) August 11, 2020

‘The management corporation’. As is it were some big operation. Now we know what a tiny organization it was. pic.twitter.com/UfoXZJXgGM

— joanypop (@jonisiboni) August 11, 2020

Will people who lose their homes lose their votes?

A photograph of a Vote sign with arrow and american flag

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You CAN vote even if you are homeless, but it does make things more difficult.

We also need to keep in mind that the people who lose their homes in the flood of evictions might also lose their voter registration in the process. If you know someone in that situation you might remind them that their vote matters more than ever.

— Forbestonow (@forbestonow) August 11, 2020

Homeless people can vote! They need to have a mailing address where they can pick up mail and be able to describe a location where they usually hang out (so a precinct can be assigned).

— Anna Warmuth (@AnnaWarmuth2) August 11, 2020

Sadly the homeless have bigger things to worry about. Like survival. There is no infrastructure in place to shelter these folks. No way to feed them. Little & awful housing that will accept someone with an eviction even if they could afford it. All part of the plan?

— Michelle (@PurpleEggsNHam) August 11, 2020

This is very complicated. I’ve helped thousands of homeless folks over the years obtain an address. They not only need one for voting, but to receive public assistance/SS. Many shelters and food pantries will not allow them to use their address. Who did help? Small family stores.

— Annie (@Stand4TruthOnly) August 11, 2020

That’s not necessarily true. You can register to vote if you are homeless, but it is difficult. Trump is an idiot and these evictions shouldn’t be happening, but being displaced does not always mean you can’t vote.

— BrookeReader (@BrookeLurvey) August 11, 2020

If you went to a poll to vote during the last election, and you had an address then, you should go to the last place you voted. Your name & signature will still be in the “book”.

— Patricia Hicks (@boatchic1) August 11, 2020

Amazing that we need to focus on making sure the newly homeless know how to continue to access their right to vote because their will be so many newly homeless U.S. citizens by election time. 🇺🇸 #VoteBlueToEndThisNightmare #VoteNov3

— Susan Stacy (@blackeyedlily) August 11, 2020

Homeowners, renters, and Trump supporters are all hurting

Woman holding a sign that says "I lost my job due to coronavirus"

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He isn’t just hurting those in Blue states.

Trump supporters are getting evicted. He hates his own base. #TrumpEvictions

— Ray King (@king_of_ray) August 11, 2020

Where will they move to, and how will that Make the Economy Great again?

— Wear A Mask To Stop COVID (@FrameworkLife) August 11, 2020

All the homeless and evicted could camp outside the White House

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Seems like a good spot.

Everyone who is homeless from COVID should move to DC to set up camp at and around the White House.

Just a thought.

— Abby the Spoon Lady (@AbbySpoonLady) August 11, 2020

better yet, I hear there`s a well equipped bunker in the WH, how about camping out there?

— Andrew Peterkin (@PeterkinAndrew) August 11, 2020

Well, I’ve mused that’s why Melania was spending tax dollars to spruce up the W.H. Rose garden. Make it nice for the tent city.

— calistogakid2u (@calistogakid2u1) August 11, 2020

Or better yet, there’s showers and bathrooms on Trump’s golf courses

Donald Trump on a golf course leaning on a club.

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Since he keeps spending tax dollars at his properties, the people might as well get some use out of them.

Not D.C.: no presidential electors. Move to Florida, set up around Mar-a-Lago or take over Doral, register and vote against Trump.

— Bill Sneirson (@billsneirson) August 11, 2020

No, they should move to the capitals of Red States.

— Dale Neal (@NealDneal7) August 11, 2020

You need public property, Feds would just immediately call it trespassing. You’d have to set up along A1A and the beaches to get at him at Mar-a-Largo.

— Abby the Spoon Lady (@AbbySpoonLady) August 11, 2020

nope, in front of his hotels and apartments.

— chris sperry (@Sperry815) August 12, 2020

There’s one house many Americans hope to see an eviction notice on…

🤔

Someone very scared is living in our house.

He needs an eviction & all of our help moving out.

👍pic.twitter.com/eGUfjTDPKF

— Clear Cider (@TheClearCider) August 11, 2020