A Moment Of Clarity: The Battle for Your Ballot: Is Federal Overreach Threatening State Elections?
The Michael Steele Podcast
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🗓️ 27 February 2026
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Summary
What happens when the federal government refuses to acknowledge the Constitution? When state election officials asked a simple civics question about who actually has the authority to run our elections, they were met with a "stunned silence" from federal authorities. Michael Steele pulls back the curtain on a growing tension between state sovereignty and federal interference that could redefine how you vote this November.
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| 0:34.4 | with Indeed. And now for a moment of clarity. |
| 0:42.2 | The White House would like him to focus on the midterm election strategy of focusing on the economy. |
| 0:48.6 | For Donald Trump, he continues to come back to this issue here, and it is not clear seven months out just how far |
| 0:54.4 | he may seek to go, despite the legal questions and roadblocks in his way. |
| 0:59.5 | You know, Madam Secretary, I want to note you, quote you, if you will, for a moment, |
| 1:07.0 | because I think you put your finger on at least from a feeling you had in a |
| 1:12.5 | conversation with that the state elections chiefs had regarding the participation |
| 1:19.2 | of ICE at our voting booze locations this November you noted it was noted in |
| 1:26.1 | the press main Secretary of State Chinebe as a Democrat, left the call with more questions |
| 1:30.7 | and answers. |
| 1:31.3 | She said federal officials declined to answer specific questions about the SAVE Act and would |
| 1:36.4 | not publicly affirm that states, not the federal government, hold constitutional authority |
| 1:40.9 | over elections. |
| 1:42.7 | So take your feeling, because I know you, not just the feeling, but what you heard, and you're now juxtaposed it against what we are hearing today, that there's a cabal of, you know, election deniers working for Donald Trump to put in place an executive order that basically |
| 2:04.8 | strips away the rights you have and the responsibilities you have as a state official |
| 2:10.3 | charge with guarding and protecting and executing elections in your state that they're going to now come in and do it anyway. |
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