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Well, you're exactly right.
The Constitution is very clear.
States run elections.
Congress has a legitimate role in passing national legislation.
Presidents have no role.
And already this year, as we've seen this campaign to try to undermine the midterms, courts have stepped up.
He had an executive order last year purporting to take personal control of elections and require people to produce a passport, not even a birth certificate, but a passport.
And it was blocked by the courts, which said it was illegal.
There is no legal basis for any of these things that are being reported.
And this notional executive action claiming Chinese influence in 2020, it seems to be based on sort of wackadoodle theories by election deniers with no basis in reality.
Courts are willing to step up, and states have a role as well.
They run the elections.
So I do think that if we are aware, if we're calling out these efforts, and if we all do what we need to do, we can have secure and free and fair and hopefully uneventful elections in November.
I'm just off the sound here, the bay here in Corpus Christi.
Back behind me, you'll see the USS Lexington.
That's kind of a fixture here in this area.
So you've got a beautiful imagery of the oil takers behind us, and of course, all of the trucks surrounding that to transport a lot of this liquid gas and the oil to various locations in Texas.
Big stop here, but Steve, as we were talking about earlier, it comes down to Tuesday.
On this big primary here in Texas, President Trump choosing at this point not to pick anybody in that Senate-Texas race.
That could be shifted in November.