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- Action
- Trump Says the Quiet Part Out Loud: Nationalize the Vote
- Description
- "The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting," Trump said, calling for the federal government to seize control of elections in at least 15 states. The Constitution gives states, not presidents, authority over how elections are run — a principle a federal judge reaffirmed just last week, blocking pieces of Trump's earlier voting executive order. What happened to states' rights, the thing the right has invoked for decades whenever it suited them? They evaporate the moment a Republican president wants direct control over who counts the votes. This is not a policy proposal. It's a dictator's ambition, said out loud on a friendly podcast, because he no longer feels the need to hide it.
- Date
- 2/2/2026
- Urgency
- Urgent
- Impeachable
- No
- Article Links
- Bloomberg
- Tags
- AutocracyIllegalOnlyTrump
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