Marshall Cohen

I'm Marshall Cohen.

I'm a senior reporter at CNN.

And this year I'm focusing a lot on election integrity and potential attempts by the president or anyone else to interfere in the midterms.

I mean, I think you should interpret everything he does this year through the lens of what he tried to do back in 2020.

And I think he's very influenced by what he considers his shortcomings in 2020, where he didn't succeed in overturning those results.

I think he doesn't want to get to a place this year where he has to overturn a result.

He might try to put his thumb on the scales, use government powers, use federal authorities to try to influence the process.

Well, I mean, he made a lot of news just a few days ago when he went farther than he's ever gone before.

He said 15 states.

He didn't say which ones.

I think we can guess.

He said that he was talking about the states that have the big fraud problem, which presumably is a lot of the states that he lost in 2020.

That are many of them run by by Democratic governors and stuff like that.

So that's the big rhetoric instead is that he's been saying that it should be nationalized.

That's really not constitutional or even practically viable, but it shows you where his mind's at.

Well, Democrats pretty swiftly, by and large, came out and said that this is crazy and unconstitutional.

But it's so much bigger than this instead.

I was at a conference, National Association of Secretaries of State in D.C.

They do it every year, but the vibes were completely different this year because all the Democratic secretaries are –

Terrified and strategizing for this potential assault by Trump on the integrity of the midterms.