"Trump followed up the FBI raid by insisting that "Republicans" should "take over" voting procedures in 15 states, during a podcast interview with former deputy F.B.I. director Dan Bongino. "The Republicans should say, 'We want to take over,'" he said. "We should take over the voting, the voting in at least many-15 states. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting.""
"While spokesperson Karoline Leavitt tried to claim Trump was only referring to the SAVE Act, which would force Americans to prove their citizenship to register to vote, the president himself continued to insist he intended much more than that. Standing in front of a cadre of Republican lawmakers assembled as he signed legislation ending a brief government shutdown, "I want to see elections be honest, and if a state can't run an election, I think the people behind me should do something about it.""
The Department of Justice seized 2020 Fulton County voting records amid efforts to validate Trump's false claim that he won Georgia. Trump publicly urged Republicans to "take over" and even "nationalize" voting in multiple states, framing the move as necessary if states cannot run honest elections. A White House spokesperson framed the comments as referring to the SAVE Act, but Trump reiterated broader intentions while signing legislation. Several GOP leaders, including Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Senator Rand Paul, expressed opposition to federalizing elections and emphasized constitutional limits on federal control of state-run elections.
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