In a Meet the Press interview, Jamie Raskin says elections will be free and fair if the federal government lets state authorities run them. He says a judge found the Trump administration keeps trying to involve itself in state election administration, where he says it has no constitutional role. He also says Trump talked about suspending elections, and points out the US held them during the Civil War and World War II.
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- Who
- Jamie Raskin
- Where
- interview - Meet the Press (NBC News)
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- NBC News · watch the full video from this moment
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- 54 seconds, unedited within the cut
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How confident are you that these elections will be carried out fairly and accurately? If the federal government stays out of it and lets the state government authorities actually run the elections, the way that we always have, we will have free and fair elections. The problem is, as this judge found in a very important ruling, that the Trump administration keeps trying to stick its nose into state electoral administration when it has no constitutional role there. Only Congress could decide we're going to pass a law to allow the post office where the president to get involved in the administration of elections. We have not passed such a law. The president's got nothing to do with it. So he should go off tomorrow, go and let us have a democratic election. You know, he was talking about suspending elections, not having elections. We had elections in the middle of the Civil War. We had elections in the middle of World War II.
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