"The suggestion, in which Trump did not specify which places he was referring to, amounts to an invitation to contradict the Constitution, given that it establishes in Section IV of Article I that in the United States, state laws govern elections, conceived as a decentralized process for which officials of both parties are responsible in the thousands of districts into which the vast map of the country is divided."
"Trump's statements must be understood within the context of his obsession and that of the MAGA movement with the falsehood that elections in the United States are corrupted by widespread fraud. The big lie Over five years later Trump continues to claim, without evidence, that the Democrats stole the 2020 election from him, in which he clearly lost to Joe Biden. His insistence on what became known as the big lie culminated in the storming of the Capitol by a mob that believed the claim"
Donald Trump urged the Republican Party to strip states of their powers and nationalize U.S. elections to influence the November midterm vote. He made the remarks on a podcast hosted by Dan Bongino while speaking at length on immigration. Trump said the Republicans should 'take over' voting in 'many 15 places' and called for nationalizing voting without specifying which places. The proposal conflicts with Section IV of Article I, which assigns election governance to state laws and thousands of local officials. The statements align with MAGA claims that the 2020 election was stolen, a falsehood linked to the Capitol attack.
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