Trump Wants to 'Nationalize' Voting in 15 'Crooked' States

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Trump Wants to ‘Nationalize’ Voting in 15 ‘Crooked’ States

February 2, 2026 at 1:40 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 267 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2026/02/02/trump-urges-nationalizing-voting-in-15-crooked-states/

President Trump urged Republicans to “nationalize” the voting process in order to block “crooked” Democrat-led states from allowing illegal immigrants to vote, which the president said is going to make it nearly impossible for the GOP to win moving forward, Mediaite reports.

Said Trump: “These people were brought to our country to vote, and they vote illegally. And it’s amazing the Republicans aren’t tougher on it. The Republicans should say, ‘We want to take over, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places.'”

He added: “The Republicans oughta nationalize the voting.”

[Diamond_Dog]

1. The same old lies about bringing immigrants across the border to vote Democratic.

Yeah, let’s have Republicans nationalize voting. The party of honesty.

[Ritabert]

2. Let me guess which states he wants his hands on...

....CA, MN, OR, WA, MA, NY, MD, DE, MI, WI, IL, etc.

[Tribetime]

12. Yep I'm sure California is #1

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. Good luck with that Donnie

Not gonna happen.

[Aristus]

4. And once again, the right-wing "states'-rights" fuckwits are nowhere to be seen or heard.

[Sogo]

5. He's so full of sh!t. Doesn't even know how elections are conducted, much less registration for them;

and he is speaking to those who don't know, either, which fuels the suspicions, allowing him (he plans) to rig the vote.

In my county in Iowa, we have had mostly Republicans in charge of the registration and election processes, and we have usually swung blue in most elections. So, TSF, are the Republicans "crooked" and causing the illegal voting?

Idiot!!!

[Wednesdays]

6. He can "want" all he wants.

But at the end of the day, it's up to the individual states on how they run elections.

[Walleye]

7. We need to counter all these accusations. I think Tulsi Gabbert was selling secrets to the Russians.

And I’m willing to believe it without any further proof, since they seem to have discarded the idea of “innocent until proven guilty”

[SergeStorms]

8. Demented asshole says what?

Keep it up, Donnie. Go ahead, push the envelope with this crap, see what happens.

[orangecrush]

9. Pushing for Civil War

Putin's wet dream.

[dalton99a]

10. NEXT: Bondi and Noem to enforce "election integrity" in November

[LetMyPeopleVote]

11. MaddowBlog-'Republicans ought to nationalize the voting': Trump eyes radical power-grab

Those concerned about democracy don’t have the luxury of simply shrugging with indifference to the president’s latest conspiratorial nonsense.

Four weeks ago: Trump floated the idea of canceling future elections
Three weeks ago: “When you think of it, we shouldn’t even have an election”
Yesterday: “The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting”

But it’s not just rhetoric: all of this has come against a backdrop of concrete action.

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-02-03T14:05:32.050Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/republicans-ought-to-nationalize-the-voting-trump-eyes-radical-power-grab

Partway through the interview, Bongino briefly referred to crime rates, to which Trump responded with a meandering rant across a variety of unrelated subjects, including his bizarre beliefs about election administration.

Trump: "These people were brought to our country to vote, & they vote illegally. The Republicans should say, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. We have states that I won that show I didn't win. You're gonna see something in Georgia"

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-02-02T18:03:24.971Z

In the course of an unsettling tirade about his “landslide” victory in 2024 (which clearly wasn’t a landslide) and his belief that undocumented immigrants were brought into the U.S. specifically to vote against Republicans (undocumented immigrants cannot and do not vote), Trump elaborated on his vision for the nation’s electoral system.

“You know, it’s amazing that the Republicans aren’t tougher on it,” the president told Bongino. “The Republicans should say, ‘We want to take over.’ We should take over the voting, the voting in at least many, 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting.”.....

Trump has long made clear that he rejects the idea that Americans settle their differences at the ballot box, and in recent weeks he’s offered fresh evidence of his antipathy toward democracy. On the anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks, for example, Trump briefly floated the idea of canceling future U.S. elections. A few weeks ago, he told Reuters that he’s so impressed with himself and his record that “when you think of it, we shouldn’t even have an election.”

While Trump doesn’t have a credible plan to take over the nation’s system of elections, his increasingly frequent and radical declarations have been unsubtle. They’ve also begun to result in concrete action: It was just last week when FBI agents raided an elections office in Fulton County, Georgia, seizing ballots and voting records as part of the president’s conspiracy theory, which included Trump personally thanking the agents for their efforts.

This coincided with Trump’s Justice Department pursuing an aggressive campaign to acquire voter rolls from states where Democrats won in 2024.

Those concerned about democracy, voting rights and the integrity of election results don’t have the luxury of simply shrugging with indifference at the president’s latest nonsense. It’s part of a broader pattern of behavior that extends well beyond ridiculous whining.