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According to the Daily Caller, the debate was sparked by Trump’s recent comments that he would accept the midterm results “if the elections are honest,” remarks he made to Tom Llamas in a pre-Super Bowl Oval Office interview. Trump insisted he was not calling to “nationalize” voting, instead highlighting what he described as entrenched corruption in major Democrat-run cities such as Detroit, Philadelphia, and Atlanta, where conservatives have long raised concerns about lax oversight and questionable ballot practices.
Appearing on “The Arena with Kasie Hunt,” Raskin anchored his rebuttal in a selective reading of the Constitution while casting Trump and his supporters as hostile to voting rights. “The states are the primary regulators of federal elections for members of the House and the Senate, and Congress can decide to regulate over the states as we’ve done under Article I, Section 4, and under Section 5 of the 14th Amendment with the Voting Rights Act. But of course, Donald Trump and MAGA have been at war with the Voting Rights Act, which is an attempt to make sure that everybody gets the right to vote,” Raskin told Kasie Hunt.
February 06, 2026
Raskin’s charge that Trump and the broader MAGA movement have been “at war with the Voting Rights Act” stands in sharp contrast to the administration’s emphasis on election integrity and enforcement of existing law. Rather than restricting lawful ballots, Trump’s team has focused on ensuring that only eligible citizens vote, a principle many conservatives view as foundational to preserving public trust in elections.
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Those efforts have included Justice Department lawsuits against states that refused to provide complete voter rolls, a step the administration argued was necessary to improve list maintenance and remove outdated or inaccurate registrations. A White House executive order also required proof of citizenship on federal voter registration forms, a measure supporters say protects the franchise of American citizens while deterring noncitizen voting that can dilute legitimate ballots.
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Raskin, however, portrayed Trump’s rhetoric about nationalizing elections as part of a broader political struggle over voting rules rather than a serious constitutional initiative. “They want to create a magical new power that the president of the United States himself has to go around and to mop up voter data from the states to do God knows what with, either to go back and to try to revive his absolute fantasy that he won the 2020 election, or more likely to look ahead in order to deny people the right to vote,” Raskin added.
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Doubling down on his constitutional argument, Raskin insisted that Trump has no authority to interfere with the midterms, invoking historical precedent to bolster his point. “He’s got no power to do that. We had midterm congressional elections in the middle of the Civil War, in the middle of World War II. Why would we cancel them now? It makes no sense,” Raskin added.
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The White House, for its part, moved to tamp down media speculation by stressing that Trump’s aside about not holding elections was made in jest, not as a policy blueprint. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters the remark was not a serious proposal to cancel the midterms and pushed back on what conservatives often see as a hyper-literal, hostile press corps eager to portray Trump as a threat to democracy.
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“Were you in the room? Only someone like you would take that so seriously,” Leavitt said when a reporter pressed her on Trump’s comments, underscoring the administration’s view that the controversy reflects media overreach more than any genuine constitutional crisis.
