President Donald Trump said Monday that Republican lawmakers should nationalize voting — claiming a power explicitly granted to states in the U.S. Constitution. “We should take over the voting, the voting, in at least 15 places,” Trump told Bongino. The unusual warrant authorized agents to seize all physical ballots from the 2020 election, voting machine tabulator tapes, images produced during the ballot count and voter rolls from that year. Days before the search, Trump claimed in a speech at the Davos World Economic Forum that the 2020 election was rigged. “Remember, the states are merely an ‘agent’ for the Federal Government in counting and tabulating the votes,” Trump wrote then.

Source: Washington Post February 03, 2026 00:26 UTC