For more now on the fallout from President Trump's call to nationalize elections and his immigration crackdown, we turn tonight to the analysis of Atkins Storr and Parker.

That's Kimberly Atkins Storr, senior opinion writer and columnist at the Boston Globe. And Kathleen Parker, a columnist with The Washington Post.

David Brooks and Jonathan K. Part are away this evening. Good evening. It's

great to see you both. Good evening. Nice to be here. Thank you. So President Trump is openly talking

about nationalizing voting, something that is plainly unconstitutional. He's doing this months

before the midterm elections. Kimberly, do you hear this as bluster or a deliberate attempt

to undermine the elections and then see doubt about

the legitimacy of future election results? I think it's definitely the latter, Jeff. We have

seen Donald Trump since before his first term, even before he won the election in 2016,

casting doubts and disparaging with no, with absolutely no

evidence, the U.S. voting systems and claiming fraud, either as a hedge before an election

he may think may go badly for him, or as a way to disparage the results after that they, after they happen.

That has been part and parcel, and it's really dangerous.

I mean, this call is not just the call to nationalize elections, which as you point out,

the Constitution makes very clear that elections are handled by and large by states,

with the federal government playing a minimal role.

But I'm concerned about coal, you know, not denying that ICE will show up at election

stations, that the call for this increasing redistricting, mid-decade redistricting in states

in order to try to game the system.

Elections are supposed to be sacred in any functioning democracy,

and that the president of the United States is the one making the call to disparage them

and try to rig the system is really alarming.

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