According to the New York Times, Trump said,
“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.”
I wanted to hear him say this, but the article doesn’t mention the name of the podcast with former deputy FBI director Dan Bongino that Trump apparently said this on. Nor does it provide a link to it. Or a URL… that’s bad reporting! How can we verify this information ourselves?
I tried to search YouTube for the clip…
Oy vey….
I tried googling around. I found CNN… no sources…
The CNN video had a bunch of boring commentary surrounding the actual voice clips, but they DID have Trump speaking!
Here is the link: https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/02/politics/video/trump-administration-republicans-nationalize-future-election-arena
Trump said it on The Dan Bongino Show here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4b0rso7ZqI0UEyGZHCNTfh
If some future person reading this finds the above links dead, well… there is a reason your teacher always told you to cite your sources. A link is a temporary thing! It is infrastructure that can fall apart as readily as a paved road will turn to potholes and gravel in a New England winter!
If you want to keep something, you have to download it, which is really the 21st century equivalent of cutting out newspaper clippings.
Regardless, I think the New York Times should provide a transcript of these conversations, if not a direct link or soundbyte.