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Deadline: White House

"A desperate quest to interfere in our elections"

Deadline: White House

Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW

Nicolle Wallace, Politics, Versant, News, Msnbc, Government, The White House, Ms Now, Daily News, Washington Dc

4.56.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump’s moves appear increasingly brazen with every new, devastatingly low poll.

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0:00.0

Hi there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in the east as the midterms inch ever closer. Donald Trump's

0:09.8

desperate quest to interfere in our elections becomes more and more and more obvious by the day.

0:16.8

His moves appear increasingly brazen with every new devastatingly low poll that is released.

0:23.5

It's now clear that, other than the American people themselves, judges will be our only line

0:29.3

of defense against Donald Trump and his administration's attempt at election interference.

0:35.1

Yesterday, in a scathing rebuke, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration

0:39.5

from allowing states to use its centralized citizenship database to cross-check the immigration

0:45.7

status of their voters. In her decision, the judge wrote that states are, quote,

0:50.5

actively removing U.S. citizens from voter rolls based on inaccurate information.

0:56.1

All in all, the federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens

1:01.8

in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote.

1:04.9

This court cannot stand idly by while that happens.

1:09.1

It comes on the heels of a decision by another federal judge.

1:12.4

This one, a Trump appointed one in Maryland, who blocked DOJ's efforts to obtain the state's voter

1:17.6

rolls. As we brought you yesterday, she wrote this, quote,

1:21.1

thus far, courts have dismissed eight of these lawsuits on motions similar to the ones

1:25.6

pending before this court. No court has ruled in favor of

1:29.3

the U.S. to date. She added this, quote, the motion to compel will be denied. The dismissal of the

1:35.3

claim will be with prejudice. Now, despite that stunning, unbroken, losing streak, Donald Trump is

1:43.5

undaunted and shows no signs of slowing down his

1:46.7

quest to seize control of our elections, even if that quest imperils our national security.

1:53.0

On that, CNN reports this, quote, the Trump administration is threatening to withhold tens of

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