Dan Pfeiffer

As you mentioned, it's in the Constitution.

They are, ironically enough, relying on the same statute that the tariffs were used for, the emergency power statute, which has no specific discussion of

elections or any of these things.

There is no statutory power the president has, even in an emergency over elections.

And there is no evidence of foreign involvement.

This is based entirely on an intelligence report that Beijing considered, but then decided not to get involved in the 2020 election.

That's it.

In the 2026 election.

There is some weird thing about how they were – like one of the conspiracy theories is they were going to make driver's licenses, fraudulent driver's licenses for people to vote by mail.

But the point is it makes no sense.

I can't imagine –

I don't put a ton of faith in the judiciary and the Supreme Court, but this seems quite – if you thought their interpretation of the law on the terrorists was absurd, this is like 10,000 times more absurd than that.

If I was conspiracy minded, I would also think about that.

It's literally the exact same thing, right?

Power to administer elections.

In this case, states, you're taking power from the states, which is explicitly designated in the Constitution.

You can't do that.

You couldn't do it with the law.

You can't do it with an executive order, just like the tariffs.

Like, I think this is, like, what is more disturbing about this is the mentality and the lengths to which this administration is willing to consider to try to avoid what they believe to be a significant ass-whipping coming in November.