Trump says Republicans should ‘nationalize’ elections
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🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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This episode: senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith, voting correspondent Miles Parks, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
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| 0:22.4 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast for Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm Tamara Keith. |
| 0:28.9 | I cover the White House. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm Miles Parks. |
| 0:30.7 | I cover voting. |
| 0:31.5 | And I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent. |
| 0:34.6 | And we are recording this at 1.10 p.m. Eastern Time. Today on the show, elections are run by State and correspondent. And we are recording this at 1.10 p.m. Eastern Time. Today on the show, |
| 0:40.0 | elections are run by state and local governments. It's in Article 1 of the Constitution. |
| 0:45.0 | But in an appearance on former FBI deputy director Dan Bongino's show, President Trump said |
| 0:51.3 | something that is causing shockwaves. He said he wants the federal government to take over running elections. |
| 0:58.0 | These people were brought to our country to vote and they vote illegally. |
| 1:02.9 | And the, you know, amazing that the Republicans aren't tougher on it. |
| 1:06.1 | The Republicans should say, we want to take over. |
| 1:08.9 | We should take over the voting in at least many 15 places. |
| 1:15.3 | The Republicans order to nationalize the voting. |
| 1:17.9 | There is a lot to unpack here. And this is just the latest move from president's settling |
| 1:23.5 | scores after his 2020 election loss. Let's start with this. What does nationalize the voting |
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