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The Reason Roundtable

Do Republicans Want To Control Elections?

The Reason Roundtable

The Reason Roundtable

Politics, News

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Plus: assessing Trump’s first year, the dysfunction of Washington, D.C., and the politics of the Super Bowl. (Recorded live in Washington, D.C.)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, and welcome to a very special edition of the Reason Roundtable live from Washington, D.C.

0:08.3

This is, as always, your Libertarian Review of News and Culture from the editors of Reason magazine.

0:14.4

I'm Peter Souterman, and tonight I am joined by my colleague.

0:18.7

Stop you.

0:19.7

No, I'm not going to stop yelling.

0:21.5

I'm so exciting to be here.

0:23.6

With Matt Welch, Catherine Mayward, and Nicholas.

0:28.6

Just imagine that while wearing headphones.

0:32.7

And your arm over here, like, toggling the volume knob.

0:36.1

Literally, none of them have to imagine that.

0:37.7

They listen to the podcast.

0:39.9

So happy Wednesday.

0:41.2

And thank you all for braving the Arctic tundra of Washington, D.C.

0:45.1

turns out to be a lot harder in Washington to get ice out in so many ways than you like,

0:50.6

okay.

0:51.2

All right, but let's start with some news here.

0:53.9

Earlier this week on Dan Bongino's podcast, President Trump called for Republicans, Trump, Mike. All right, but let's start with some news here. Earlier this week on Dan Bonino's

0:55.9

podcast, President Trump called for Republicans to nationalize elections. Yesterday, Trump repeated

1:02.4

this claim saying that states were running corrupt elections and that the federal government

1:07.1

should get involved. It's not obvious what this means exactly, but people are understandably

1:12.3

taking it to mean some sort of political control over the voting apparatus. It's an argument that

1:17.3

this is a prelude to Trumpified partisan election interference. Nick, what do you make of this?

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