In an interview Thursday with Fox News host Sean Hannity, Trump described law enforcement officers as part of a phalanx of authorities he hopes will monitor voting in November. The president has limited authority to order law enforcement to patrol polling places. ADMike Reed, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee, said that law enforcement officers are not part of the RNC’s new poll-watching program. Gupta, who is president of the nonprofit Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, said she expected that Trump would threaten to deploy law enforcement officials to the polls. “So there is an appropriate role of law enforcement to ensure other people’s conduct isn’t preventing people from voting.

Source: Washington Post August 22, 2020 00:11 UTC