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Joe Lancaster

Trump Wants To 'Take Over' State Elections

President Donald Trump suggested this week that the federal government should take over certain states' elections, in clear violation of the Constitution. It's a bad idea, just like it was a bad idea five years ago when Democrats proposed something similar.

"The Republicans should say, we want to take over—we should take over the voting in at least…15 places," Trump told conservative podcaster Dan Bongino, who until recently served as FBI deputy director. "The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting."

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