Mark Interviews National Review Online journalist John Fund.
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🗓️ 27 March 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Simone on 710 W-W-O-R. |
| 0:04.4 | Well, John Fund, the brilliant columnist National Review, |
| 0:08.2 | and the Committee to Unleash Prosperity. |
| 0:10.0 | And make sure you follow them on Twitter. |
| 0:11.6 | It's John Fund, Twitter. |
| 0:13.2 | Also, when it comes to elections, |
| 0:15.1 | he literally wrote the book on it. |
| 0:18.0 | It's the best book on the subject, |
| 0:19.5 | Our Broken Elections. You can order the book, and he's with us best book on the subject. Our broken elections. |
| 0:21.6 | You can order the book, and he's with us right now. John Fund, how you doing? |
| 0:26.2 | Well, I'm in a good mood because Donald Trump has issued an executive order, which is just what the |
| 0:33.5 | public needs to have more confidence in our election integrity. |
| 0:39.1 | Now, it's an executive order. |
| 0:44.5 | What will it take to make this reality in every state to enforce it? |
| 0:51.0 | Well, we have a delicate balance we have to strike between the Constitution, which lodges primary responsibility for conducting elections with the states and counties, |
| 0:55.8 | and the federal government, which I think has the right and the duty, frankly, to set some |
| 1:00.7 | minimum standards. I think most of Trump's executive order will pass muster. Some of it is going |
| 1:06.1 | to be contested. The most important part of it is this. |
| 1:10.8 | Federal law already says that this is in the wake of the Bush v. |
| 1:14.9 | Gore recount a quarter century ago. |
| 1:17.6 | If you take federal money to improve your voting systems, buy new machines, whatever you |
| 1:22.9 | do, you have a responsibility to clean up your voter roles, which have been in many states notoriously |
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