Speaker 1: And now for a moment of clarity.
Speaker 2: The White House would like to end to focus on
the midterm election strategy of focusing on the economy. For
Donald Trump, he continues to come back to this issue here,
and it is not clear seven months out just how
far he may seek to go despite the legal questions
and row blocks in his way.
Speaker 1: You know, Metame Secretary, I want to note you, quote you,
if you will, for a moment, because I think you
put your finger on at least from a feeling you
had in a conversation with that the state elections chiefs
had regarding the participation of ICE at our voting Boo's
locations this November. It was noted in the press. Main
Secretary of State Shinnebello, as a Democrat, left the call
with more questions and answers. She said federal officials declined
to answer specific questions about the Save Act and would
not publicly affirm the states, not the federal government, hold
constitutional authority over elections. So take your feeling, because I
know not just the feeling, but what you heard, and
you're now just opposed to oppose it against what we
are hearing today that there's a cabal of election deniers
working for Donald Trump to put in place in executive
order that basically strips away the rights you have and
the responsibilities you have as a state official charge with
guarding and protecting and executing elections in your state, that
they're going to now come in and do it anyway.
Because here's the deal. I don't care what you heard
on the call, you know what. To be honest, it
doesn't matter what these people are saying, because come this
November stuff will just happen. This will be Oh, we're
going to do it and beg for forgiveness later. We're
doing all this pretending now that we're going to sort
of talk this this extreme, this extreme extreme administration off
the voting cliff and restore it to normalcy. And I
got the impression in reading that story that you were like,
you know what, this is a load of crap. These
folks are not going to be about the business of
respecting my responsibilities as a state election official. Am I
far off the mark here?
Speaker 3: Well, the last question that I asked them was would
they publicly recognize state sovereignty over the elections? And there
was a stunned silence. This is not a hard question
any fourth grader studying Civics knows that the Constitution places
the States in charge.
Speaker 1: That's Michael Steele on the weeknight Monday through Friday at
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