President Donald Trump on Tuesday said “the federal government should get involved” in elections in states that are unable to “legally and honestly” administer them on their own.
If they can’t, then “somebody else should take over,” Trump said in the Oval Office after he signed a bill to fund the federal government.
The comments show Trump is not backing off his recent suggestion that Republicans should “nationalize” elections, even as Democrats raise concerns that the administration may try to interfere in the upcoming midterms.
“If a state can’t run an election, I think the people behind me should do something about it,” Trump said in the Oval Office, referring to the handful of Republican lawmakers standing around him.
He had been asked what he meant when, in a podcast interview released Monday, he called on members of the Republican Party to “take over the voting.”
