President Donald Trump undercut his own White House’s attempts to downplay comments he made about nationalizing election law earlier this week, when he reiterated his suggestion in front of reporters on Tuesday.
Taking questions from the press at a bill signing in the Oval Office with congressional lawmakers behind him, Trump said he wanted to see elections be “honest.”
“If a state can’t run an election, I think the people behind me should do something about it,” Trump said. “Because, you know, if you think about it, the state is an agent for the federal government in elections. 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
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