(AP Photo/Allison Robbert) President Donald Trump declared Friday that there will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections in November whether approved by Congress or not as he vowed to use an executive order to push reform, repeating his baseless claim that NO VOTER I.D. is a SCAM the Democratic Party uses to cheat in elections. The president's remarks came as a House-passed bill requiring proof of citizenship to register and vote faces long odds in the Senate.
"It has been baked in that the states are largely in charge of the election process, and that the federal government can set or override rules for that process if they wish, but it's very specific that that has to be done through Congress and not through lone executive action," said Justin Levitt, a constitutional and law of democracy scholar at Loyola Law School who was a non-partisan policy adviser for Democracy and Voting Rights during the Biden White House.
During an appearance on former FBI deputy director Dan Bongino's podcast, Trump recycled some of his baseless elections claims saying he won states that were actually won by President Joe Biden in 2020 or Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024, for example to argue that Republicans needed to be tougher on election fraud. The Republicans should say, We want to take over, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places,' said Trump. The Republicans oughta nationalize the voting.
