Trump Is Still Trying to Undermine Elections

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : " Now that Trump has installed a surfeit of election deniers throughout his Administration -- Vice-President J. D. Vance; the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, and Attorney General Pam Bondi (both of whom, in their confirmation hearings, refused to say that Joe Biden had won the 2020 election); the deputy F.B.I. director, Dan Bongino; White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller -- the President has been busy dismantling the guardrails protecting voting and voters.
40% : " Less than two weeks later, Trump issued an executive order that states, "No employee of the executive branch acting in their official capacity may advance an interpretation of the law as the position of the United States that contravenes the President or the Attorney General's opinion on a matter of law."
36% : In her role as chair, Weintraub rebuked Trump in 2019, when he said that he might accept foreign intelligence on his opponent without informing the F.B.I., and again in 2020, when he claimed that mail-in voting would promote widespread fraud.
33% : In the estimation of Michael Waldman, the president of the Brennan Center for Justice, "the SAVE Act would be one of the worst voting laws in congressional history."
28% : Meanwhile, Trump, with the help of Elon Musk's DOGE, fired some hundred and thirty employees of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), of the Department of Homeland Security.
26% : As Marc Elias, an elections lawyer who litigates on behalf of Democrats, told me, "When Donald Trump says that he does not believe there should be voting machines, you should believe him.
24% : On February 6th, two weeks before the governors' meeting, it was reported that Trump had fired the chairman of the bipartisan Federal Election Commission, Ellen Weintraub, dismissing her with a letter stating simply, "You are hereby removed as a Member of the Federal Election Commission, effective immediately.
21% : Trump also has been talking about taking over another independent agency, the U.S. Postal Service, which he does not have the authority to do.
21% : " Trump's efforts to undermine elections are also being aided by Republicans in Congress who are pushing for the adoption of a piece of legislation called the SAVE Act.

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