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Trump's Latest Plot To Rig The Midterms

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What A Day

News, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Daily News

4.612.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

President Donald Trump has been trying to get the SAVE America Act passed for months. The bill would require not just ID, but proof of citizenship to vote — effectively disenfranchising Americans who don’t happen to have their passport or birth certificate handy. Which is… millions of Americans. So what does Trump’s determination to get this bill passed mean for November? To find out, we spoke with Marc Elias, founder of Democracy Docket.

And in headlines: we finally hear what’s in the memorandum of understanding with Iran, one Georgia Republican spends $100 million to beat his Trump-backed opponent, and the World Cup’s underdogs are looking good.

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0:00.0

Donald Trump has actually been sabotaging his own legislative agenda, and now his own nominees

0:04.4

to pass a bill that, as you point out, Republicans in the Senate, it's not just they can't pass

0:10.6

it, but they actually don't even have a majority to pass it.

0:12.9

Like, there are Republicans who don't want to pass it.

0:33.9

I'm Jane Koston, and this is Wadaday, the show deeply inspired by this heartwarming tale of true love between President Donald Trump and Egyptian President Abdel Fata El-CCi. He was in a hotel, and I met him, and we fell in love, deeply in love.

0:41.3

Touching. On today's show, we talk about Trump's continued attacks on the right to vote

0:46.1

with Democracy Docket founder Mark Elias. Before we get into all that, here's what we're following

0:52.0

today, Wednesday, June 17th.

1:02.5

And the one president I did not want to be was the late great Herbert Hoover. I didn't want that.

1:07.1

And who knows what would have happened. During a speech at the G7 summit in France today,

1:12.0

Trump pondered hypotheticals, like which presidents he would and would not want to be.

1:19.6

Look, you know I love a presidential hypothetical trivia time, but maybe not here.

1:23.9

And while I wish I could play all of the nonsensical comments Trump made,

1:28.5

I'll instead let him give you an update on the U.S. Iran deal that's supposedly set to be formally signed in Switzerland on Friday. Maybe.

1:31.9

The deal we reached with Iran on Sunday will be signed shortly tomorrow, maybe the next day.

1:39.7

Thank you. Subject deals. My whole life is all about deals. That's all I ever did is make deals.

1:45.8

And crazy things happen with deals.

1:48.0

What? But when and if the deal will actually be signed is not the only confusing thing about it.

1:55.0

Exactly what the U.S. Iran deal entails has also been up in the air. But after days of secrecy,

2:01.5

senior U.S.

2:05.8

officials dictated the memorandum of understanding with Iran to journalists today.

2:11.0

The official spoke on condition of anonymity to read the draft, which Iran has not released.

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