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Way Too Early with Ali Vitali

Trump doubles down on call for 'nationalized' elections

Way Too Early with Ali Vitali

MS NOW, Ali Vitali

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4.5538 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Trump doubles down on call for 'nationalized' elections

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0:00.0

When you see crooked elections and we had plenty of them, and by the way, we had them last time,

0:07.0

but go to 2020 and look at the facts that are coming out, rigged crooked elections.

0:11.0

If we have areas, take a look at Detroit, take a look at Pennsylvania, take a look at Philadelphia,

0:18.0

you go take a look at Atlanta, look at some of the places that

0:21.4

horrible corruption on elections, and the federal government should not allow that.

0:28.0

That was President Trump continuing his false claims of election fraud, suggesting again

0:33.1

that the federal government should bypass state laws. The question is, how are Republicans responding?

0:38.7

You know, this is the Constitution after all.

0:40.9

Plus, House Republicans canceled a vote to hold the Clintons in contempt of Congress after the

0:44.8

pair agreed to testify in the oversight committee's Jeffrey Epstein investigation.

0:48.7

Question is, will the Clintons get the public hearing that they're seeking?

0:52.8

Meanwhile, Congress now has 10 days to figure out funding for the Department of Homeland Security

0:57.3

after excluding it from the spending bill that was just signed by the president.

1:01.4

The question is, can lawmakers come to an agreement, or will they keep kicking this can down the road?

1:06.2

It's way too early for this.

1:21.3

Good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that tips its cap to last night's big winner.

1:22.2

Penny, we're going to have more on her big victory in just a bit.

1:25.9

Good girl.

1:26.9

I'm Ali Vitale. On this Wednesday, February 4th,

1:29.5

we will start with the news here in Washington because President Trump yesterday doubled down

1:33.7

on his call for nationalized elections. After telling right-wing podcaster and former number two

1:39.0

at the FBI, Dan Bongino on Monday, Republicans should take over voting.

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