Marshall Cohen

We spoke to a lot of officials.

Some of them, they didn't want to tell us what possibilities they were planning on preparing for because they said, I don't want to give him any ideas.

But some of the things that they did divulge is they're very afraid about possible troop deployments, which we've seen obviously in California and Chicago.

And they're also very scared about ICE and immigration enforcement agencies possibly being sent maybe at the last minute when it might be too late to stop, but early enough to cause chaos and possibly intimidate or disenfranchise.

The Republicans we talked to, by and large, are not afraid.

They're not worried.

They don't think Trump's going to do anything terrible.

They applaud his efforts to clean up the voter rolls.

They are supporting his efforts to require voter ID.

They're supporting his legislative priorities in terms of voting.

requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration.

It was really the Democrats scared of what Trump might do and then Republicans essentially giving him some political cover.

When you talk to nonpartisan election experts, folks that are former election administrators, that is what they bring up, what you just mentioned, that he doesn't actually have to do all this stuff.

to make an impact.

He can just threaten it or bring it up because it is scary.

And people might ask themselves, yeah, is it really worth it to go vote for a senator, some senator that I think is a bum or some member of Congress that I might not even remember?

What have they done for me lately?

Am I going to go risk getting detained?

For them to vote for them?

Screw that.