I Know Trump’s Secret Plan to Scare Voters

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🗓️ 30 March 2026

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Daily Beast Political Reporter Sarah Ewall-Wice speaks with Alex Bores, a tech insider turned rising star of the Democratic Party, for a deeply pointed conversation on the collision between Big Tech, Trump’s inner circle, and the future of American democracy. Bores, a former tech insider turned candidate for New York's 12th congressional disctrict, sounds the alarm on what he sees as a billionaire-driven AI agenda shaping policy inside Trump’s White House—while also detailing his break with Palantir over its work with ICE. He then zeroes in on what he calls the most urgent threat: the expanding role of ICE under Trump, including warnings of agents being used to intimidate voters at polling places and a parallel push to undermine mail-in voting ahead of the midterms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It is a coordinated plan to rig the elections because they can see the same polls weekend.
0:06.0	They know that what they're doing is deeply, deeply, deeply unpopular.
0:10.0	And the millions or billions that they're going to raise from the corrupt people around them
0:15.0	are not going to be enough to save them.
0:17.0	And so their only chance is to rig the elections.
0:20.0	And we at the state level, but Democrats and Congress need to step up and do everything we can to And so their only chance is to rig the elections.
0:34.2	And we at the state level, but Democrats and Congress need to step up and do everything we can to call this out, point it out, and make sure there are the resources to run free and fair elections because there is no chance that this administration wins if there's actually a real vote.
0:41.7	I'm Sarah Ewalweiss with the Daily Beast podcast, in for host, Joanna Coles.
0:47.9	Today on the podcast, we have Alex Boers, a New York State Assemblyman who is currently running for Congress's New York's 12th District.
0:51.6	We'll talk about his concerns about AI and the tech oligarchies hold on the
0:56.8	Trump White House. We'll get his thoughts on President Donald Trump in which members of his
1:02.2	cabinet that he thinks Democrats should move to impeach. We'll also talk about his friendly rivalry
1:08.6	with New York's mayor, Zoran Mamdani. But before we get into it,
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1:25.3	a million. And with your help, I think we can get there.
1:28.5	So here's my conversation with Alex Boers.
1:33.8	So Alex, thank you so much for joining me. It's a pleasure to have you on. I know that President
1:40.1	Donald Trump in the White House this week, they announced their advisory council on technology and science.
1:45.5	It's got a lot of big names on it, like the head of Navidia, the Michael Dell for one.
1:50.7	We've got Larry Ellison of Oracle, Mark Zuckerberg. You talk about being like big AI's number one
1:56.7	target. But when it comes to the tech world, when you look at this list of folks who are
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