Trump renews election integrity crackdown even as GOP shows little appetite

Trump renews election integrity crackdown even as GOP shows little appetite


President Donald Trump has renewed his focus on election integrity — including calling for what he described as the “nationalization of voting” — even as many Republicans on Capitol Hill show little appetite to embrace his push.

The firestorm erupted on Monday when Trump appeared for an interview with his former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino.

“The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting,” the president told Bongino. “We have states that are so crooked, and they’re counting votes.”

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The comments are part of a broader renewed focus on election integrity after years of claiming the 2020 election was stolen. Last week, the White House deployed Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to Fulton County, Georgia, where she attended an FBI raid of a state election office. The

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