Jen Psaki

So the Trump administration is planning to target a group of legitimate voters, citizens, with the right to vote, and threatening to strip them of their citizenship and deport them.

Now, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said that the only people who should be concerned by this are criminals, okay?

But like I said before, non-citizen voting is not a real problem in this country.

It almost never happens.

And as MSNOW reports tonight, DHS is not just looking for people who voted illegally.

They're also looking for people who may have just registered to vote before they were naturalized as citizens, even if they didn't actually vote.

All of that strikes me as very intimidating, very much voter suppression.

But that appears to be just the beginning.

That appears to be just the pretext for the other major plan from the Trump administration that Emma's now scooped today.

MSNOW has also learned that senior DHS and Justice Department appointees have held a series of meetings to discuss sending law enforcement to polling places to quote-unquote secure elections.

Maybe they mean National Guard members.

Maybe they mean active duty military members.

Maybe they mean the small armies of armed and mass federal immigration agents we have now seen taking over city after city.

But whatever they mean, all of this is clearly an attempt to intimidate naturalized citizens, legal voters from the ballot box.

And amazingly, that is just one of the ways that Trump is now trying to use his power as president to unfairly sway this election.

His intelligence agencies are raiding election offices to fan the flames of his old 2020 election lies.

His supporters in Congress are trying to make it so you need a passport or a birth certificate just to register to vote, even though half the country does not have passports.

And Trump is pressuring Republicans in states all across the country to gerrymander their congressional maps to get him more seats.

And as we get closer to the election, there will be more and more to try to do and stop all of these efforts by Trump.

But this far out, one of the places where Democrats have the most opportunity to push back is redistricting.