MS NOW host Alicia Menendez discusses President Donald Trump’s proposal to nationalize elections and Steve Bannon’s message that ICE will be used to secure polling sites.

ALICIA MENENDEZ, MS NOW HOST: I think part of the challenge of talking about all of this, one of the things that hopefully we have all learned from the past few years is that if anything, we’ve had a failure of imagination about what it is Donald Trump is willing to do in order to dismantle this democracy. You had what I thought was a brilliant piece in The New York Times sort of anticipating and supposing one of those many ways. Let me read you some of your own writing. Recently, a number of states have undertaken investigations into non-citizen voting, cross-checking voter rolls with citizenship status and found it virtually nonexistent. Playing politics with the idea of fraudulent voters and stolen elections comes at a real cost to American confidence in our elections. It’s an affront to our democracy and to all those who work to deliver fair and free elections. It’s also an ominous sign for where things may be heading this year. Again, I think when we talk about the immigration enforcement that we have seen all over this country, it’s never really been about immigration. It is fundamentally about challenging the rule of law. And there is a very direct line that we can draw from this mass deportation machine to an administration that wants to use some of the armed officers to reckon with American elections.

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