So, we have seen Donald Trump really double down on this idea that there's going to be some election interference. We've heard uh about reporting that he's drafting an executive order um as a result of China interfering in the 2020 election that would quote unlock extraordinary presidential powers over voting. Now, notwithstanding the fact that the president doesn't have powers over voting.
Uh voting belongs entirely to the states. Still, that's not going to stop Trump from thinking that he does or trying to exercise this idea that he does. And so what is the plan in your state of Illinois in the event that in what feels like the inevitable event that Donald Trump does try to um you know usurp control of our elections?
We should begin by just saying it is clear that he is going to use either ICE and Customs and Border Patrol uh with their uniforms and their automatic weapons uh or he'll try to use National Guard to protect uh the polling places. And I have no doubt that that part of that plan is potentially uh to claim fraud and to seize ballot boxes in order to count the votes himself. So he knows he's going to lose this election.
And so he's got to find some fraudulent means to uh overturn what the voters want. um source. So, we have seen Donald Trump really double down on this idea that there's going to be some election interference.
We've heard uh about reporting that he's drafting an executive order um as a result of China interfering in the 2020 election that would quote unlock extraordinary presidential powers over voting. Now, notwithstanding the fact that the president doesn't have powers over voting. Uh voting belongs entirely to the states.
Still, that's not going to stop Trump from thinking that he does or trying to exercise this idea that he does. And so what is the plan in your state of Illinois in the event that in what feels like the inevitable event that Donald Trump does try to um you know usurp control of our elections? We should begin by just saying it is clear that he is going to use either ICE and Customs and Border Patrol uh with their uniforms and their automatic weapons uh or he'll try to use National Guard to protect uh the polling places.
And I have no doubt that that part of that plan is potentially uh to claim fraud and to seize ballot boxes in order to count the votes himself. So he knows he's going to lose this election. And so he's got to find some fraudulent means to uh overturn what the voters want.
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