America's elections are rigged, stolen, and a laughing stock all over the world.

We are either going to fix them or we won't have a country any longer.

For fact's sake, Donald Trump won two of those so-called rigged, stolen elections.

Susan, you wrote that this is no longer a question if Donald Trump will undermine Americans' confidence in the midterms. But how?

What do you see us doing to protect that?

Yeah, I mean, look, this is a situation where, you know,

you've seen Republicans basically abandon their longstanding views about states' rights and federalism.

And, you know, now all of a sudden, Mike Johnson is the one who

decides that it's the job of the federal Speaker of the House to be commenting on questionable

election practices in states that he doesn't like or that elect Democrats. You know, the decentralization,

I think, is the thing that, you know, experts are looking to.

You know, it's one of the reasons, of course, that Donald Trump's claims of a rigged election in 2020 are so absurd and farcical.

It is simply inconceivable that in six swing states in 2020, all over this country, the massive number of people who had been involved in the conspiracy

of those alleged by Donald Trump and the sort of fever dreams he's encouraged among his supporters.

It's basically inconceivable in the context of our very decentralized state-run election system.

And again, it should be pointed out that the Constitution

is very clear that it's up to the states to regulate the time, place, and manner of elections.

That is not a role for the President of the United States who just last Monday said he wanted

to nationalize, quote-unquote, elections in 15 states. But I think there are enormous fears among state election officials about the kind of

actions that can be taken in key states looking ahead to this fall.

One thing I spoke with an election law expert who pointed out that, you know, the time

for states and localities to act is probably before Republicans, you know,

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