She made the statement in response to a question about the presence of ICE at the polls as an intimidating factor, per Arizona’s Democratic Secretary of State Adrien Fontes. Advertisement“She came out with a very strong statement and she acknowledged, flat out, that anybody saying that ICE would be at the polling places was spreading disinformation,” Fontes told HuffPost. “You’re damn right we’re going to have ICE surround the polls come November,” former Trump advisor Steve Bannon said on his podcast on Feb. 4. “She’s the absolute wrong messenger to guarantee to us that ICE is not going to be at polling places,” Fontes said. “I was encouraged by the pledge that ICE agents would not be in and around polling places,” Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon, a Democrat, told HuffPost.

Source: Huffington Post February 26, 2026 01:16 UTC