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Trump: "If they don't want voter ID, that means they want to cheat. We can't allow cheating on elections. Now, if we need to put in federal controls as opposed to state control -- remember, they're really an agent, they're really accumulating the votes for who wins an election." pic.twitter.com/GOo19nabMp

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 5, 2026

If that argument ever gets to court, it loses. Somebody told this to Trump, and the idiot believed it. It is not and has never been the law. The states are obligated to conduct free and fair elections. They are not obliged to produce a result that the federal government, or the POTUS, finds to be “honest.”

Election fraud can only be proven in a court of competent jurisdiction on evidence establishing fraud sufficient to materially affect the outcome in a specific race or county. Proving fraud in Fulton County would not prove fraud in the entire state of Georgia. Fraud might be established in one Congressional district, but that would require evidence that changed the outcome of the vote in that district (which would be a very large undertaking.) In a Senate race, it would take practically statewide evidence.

Trump can declare the vote in November now as effectively as he can declare it dishonest in December. Either way, it’s only his opinion.

“Now, if we need to put in federal controls as opposed to state control -", he’ll need to amend Art. I. sec. 4 of the Constitution. I don’t think that will happen before November.