White House Tries To Spin Trump’s Call To Nationalize The Vote

Asked by reporters about Trump’s unambiguous call “to nationalise the voting,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt attempted to spin his authoritarian urge as merely an endorsement of Republicans’ desire for a voter ID law.

“What the president was referring to is the SAVE Act,” she said Tuesday, referring to Republican legislation that would likely disenfranchise millions of voters. “Because it provides very common sense measures for voting in our country, such as voter ID.”

Leavitt added that Trump “believes there has obviously been a lot of fraud and irregularities that have taken place in American elections.”

Beyond Trump’s constant lies about the 2020 presidential election, there’s no evidence that’s the case.

Leavitt’s spin is a stark departure from Trump’s actual comments Monday on Dan Bongino’s podcast, where, without any evidence, he claimed to have won states in 2020 he actually lost and urged Republicans “to take over the voting.”

“We have states that I won that show I didn’t win,” Trump told Bongino, who resigned as deputy FBI director in December.

“I won in a landslide. I won everything. I won a thing called counties,” Trump said.

“The Republicans should say, ‘We want to take over — we should take over the voting in at least, many, 15 places,’” he continued. “The Republicans ought to nationalise the voting. We have states that are so crooked, and they’re counting votes.”

The president then pointed to last week’s FBI raid of the election headquarters of Fulton County, Georgia, and ominously predicted people are “going to see something” result from it.

Federal agents walked off with “24 pallets, which encompassed 656 boxes of 2020 election documents,” WSB-TV reports.

Trump lost Georgia in 2020 and has spent the last six years fuelling conspiracies to the contrary. After he lost, he infamously told Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger during a private phone call to “find” 11,780 more votes so Trump could declare himself the winner.