Katie Couric claims Trump wants to ‘f— with’ the midterm elections
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Journalist Katie Couric has suggested that President Donald Trump wants to “mess up our election” based on recent executive orders to create a nationwide slate of electors.
“You know, there are a lot of people who are concerned about all these actions that happen occasionally, but when you put them together as a whole, pardon my French, but they seem to be making a real effort to f— our elections,” Couric remarked to her.Breaking News” Show before laughing. “And I can say that on Substack, not on network news.”
He asked Sean Morales-Doyle, director of the Brennan Center, why Trump’s order to prepare a nationwide list of eligible voters and restrict mail-in voting “might raise a red flag.”
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Katie Couric spoke with Brennan Center director Sean Morales-Doyle about why President Donald Trump’s executive order on the eligible voter list poses a “red flag.” (John Lamparski/Getty Images)
“I’ll start with the fundamental reason why the president cannot write the rules that govern our elections,” Morales-Doyle said. he said. “That’s not his job. The Constitution gives that authority to the states and Congress, not the president. And this is the second time he’s trying to do this, to issue an executive order that rewrites the rules that govern our elections.”
He added that the “implicit” purpose of the decree was to put pressure on election workers.
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“The implication here is that if you, election officials, allow someone who is not on our national list of citizens to vote, then we will come for you, and you may worry about criminal prosecution,” Morales-Doyle said. said Morales-Doyle.
“And so it’s multifaceted. It’s actually also designed to intimidate and intimidate election workers,” Couric responded.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to create a nationwide list of eligible voters from state voter rolls. (Getty Images)
In a comment to Fox News Digital, White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said: “Only Democratic politicians and operatives would be offended by legal efforts to secure American elections and ensure that only eligible American citizens vote. President Trump campaigned on securing our elections, and the American people sent him back to the White House to finish the job.”
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Trump’s order directs the Department of Homeland Security to work with the Social Security Administration and other federal databases to create eligible voter lists using federal citizenship and identity data. It also directs the U.S. Postal Service to develop new security measures for mail-in voting against non-citizens.
Since the start of Trump’s second term, many in the media have claimed that the president would attempt to “rig” the 2026 midterm elections; Some went so far as to suggest that it could cancel the elections altogether.
Arizona, California and Oregon have vowed to sue the Trump administration over the order. (iStock)
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Shortly after Trump signed the executive order on Tuesday, Arizona, California and Oregon vowed to sue the administration. California Governor Gavin Newsom was among Democratic officials pushing the idea that Trump could rig the midterm elections and cancel the 2028 presidential election.
