Trump sows doubts about 2026 election in effort to sell national voter ID law
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President Donald Trump appears to be dusting off his playbook from past elections, indicating he will only accept this November’s midterm election results if they are “honest.”
Trump’s comment to NBC News follows a recent proposal to “nationalize” voting during an appearance on former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino’s podcast, a suggestion the White House has contended that the president is simply in support of the passage of the SAVE Act.
The SAVE Act would require prospective voters to provide proof of citizenship in person to register to vote in federal elections with photo ID, supplementing a push to purge non-citizens from voter rolls after the pandemic prompted a loosening of election laws.
“The president believes in the United States Constitution,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters this week outside the West Wing. “However, he believes there has obviously been a lot of fraud and irregularities that have taken place in American elections.”
Nevertheless, Trump told reporters hours later, “If a state can’t run an election,” Congress “should do something about it.”
“If you think about it, the state is an agent for the federal government in elections,” the president said in the Oval Office. “I don’t know why the federal government doesn’t do them anyway, but when you see some of these states, about how horribly they run their elections, what a disgrace it is… The federal government should not allow that — the federal government should get involved.”
Undeterred, Leavitt relied on the same argument a day later, after the NBC interview, during her press briefing on Thursday.
“What the president is suggesting, and I just spoke to him about this, is that Republicans and Democrats in Congress should pass the SAVE Act,” she said.
But Trump’s apparent concerns about election integrity amid persistent claims the 2020 election was stolen from him have dominated news media headlines this month after the FBI’s seizure of 2020 ballots from Fulton County, Georgia, last week, in addition to reports that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who attended the Fulton County raid, took voting machines from Puerto Rico last year.
Republicans have expressed concerns about Trump’s moves and rhetoric having the unintended consequence of suppressing GOP voter turnout.
“He may be trying to set up an excuse for failure, but in the process, he could discourage Republicans from voting,” Republican strategist Charlie Black told the Washington …
Trust is earned, not demanded.
President Donald Trump appears to be dusting off his playbook from past elections, indicating he will only accept this November’s midterm election results if they are “honest.”
Trump’s comment to NBC News follows a recent proposal to “nationalize” voting during an appearance on former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino’s podcast, a suggestion the White House has contended that the president is simply in support of the passage of the SAVE Act.
The SAVE Act would require prospective voters to provide proof of citizenship in person to register to vote in federal elections with photo ID, supplementing a push to purge non-citizens from voter rolls after the pandemic prompted a loosening of election laws.
“The president believes in the United States Constitution,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters this week outside the West Wing. “However, he believes there has obviously been a lot of fraud and irregularities that have taken place in American elections.”
Nevertheless, Trump told reporters hours later, “If a state can’t run an election,” Congress “should do something about it.”
“If you think about it, the state is an agent for the federal government in elections,” the president said in the Oval Office. “I don’t know why the federal government doesn’t do them anyway, but when you see some of these states, about how horribly they run their elections, what a disgrace it is… The federal government should not allow that — the federal government should get involved.”
Undeterred, Leavitt relied on the same argument a day later, after the NBC interview, during her press briefing on Thursday.
“What the president is suggesting, and I just spoke to him about this, is that Republicans and Democrats in Congress should pass the SAVE Act,” she said.
But Trump’s apparent concerns about election integrity amid persistent claims the 2020 election was stolen from him have dominated news media headlines this month after the FBI’s seizure of 2020 ballots from Fulton County, Georgia, last week, in addition to reports that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who attended the Fulton County raid, took voting machines from Puerto Rico last year.
Republicans have expressed concerns about Trump’s moves and rhetoric having the unintended consequence of suppressing GOP voter turnout.
“He may be trying to set up an excuse for failure, but in the process, he could discourage Republicans from voting,” Republican strategist Charlie Black told the Washington …
Trump sows doubts about 2026 election in effort to sell national voter ID law
Trust is earned, not demanded.
President Donald Trump appears to be dusting off his playbook from past elections, indicating he will only accept this November’s midterm election results if they are “honest.”
Trump’s comment to NBC News follows a recent proposal to “nationalize” voting during an appearance on former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino’s podcast, a suggestion the White House has contended that the president is simply in support of the passage of the SAVE Act.
The SAVE Act would require prospective voters to provide proof of citizenship in person to register to vote in federal elections with photo ID, supplementing a push to purge non-citizens from voter rolls after the pandemic prompted a loosening of election laws.
“The president believes in the United States Constitution,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters this week outside the West Wing. “However, he believes there has obviously been a lot of fraud and irregularities that have taken place in American elections.”
Nevertheless, Trump told reporters hours later, “If a state can’t run an election,” Congress “should do something about it.”
“If you think about it, the state is an agent for the federal government in elections,” the president said in the Oval Office. “I don’t know why the federal government doesn’t do them anyway, but when you see some of these states, about how horribly they run their elections, what a disgrace it is… The federal government should not allow that — the federal government should get involved.”
Undeterred, Leavitt relied on the same argument a day later, after the NBC interview, during her press briefing on Thursday.
“What the president is suggesting, and I just spoke to him about this, is that Republicans and Democrats in Congress should pass the SAVE Act,” she said.
But Trump’s apparent concerns about election integrity amid persistent claims the 2020 election was stolen from him have dominated news media headlines this month after the FBI’s seizure of 2020 ballots from Fulton County, Georgia, last week, in addition to reports that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who attended the Fulton County raid, took voting machines from Puerto Rico last year.
Republicans have expressed concerns about Trump’s moves and rhetoric having the unintended consequence of suppressing GOP voter turnout.
“He may be trying to set up an excuse for failure, but in the process, he could discourage Republicans from voting,” Republican strategist Charlie Black told the Washington …
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