Senator Mark Warner

That is the FBI.

And the idea that you are going to somehow federalize elections is totally counter to everything that Republicans have historically advocated for.

But I do believe that this is all potentially out there.

And I think, again, I'm not switching subjects.

It's all about what they could do.

I hear a number of people saying, well, Senator, why are you concerned about ICE agents showing up at polling stations?

Well, everybody's registered to vote.

You know, they're just Americans.

baloney because you could have families where some people are documented some people are not but also we've now seen ice start to use using some of our technology companies information about american citizens so you go to your polling station and you have somebody come up and identify you that's an ice agent and they've found out that you know you might have had a parking ticket or what we've already seen in minnesota where a person who was

trying to apply for the Global Entry Pass to get through TSA quicker had their application turned down because that person had shown up and exercised their First Amendment right protesting.

This whole mess of intimidation, combined with trying to mess with the election system, and if local and state election officials don't say, this is not the way we run our elections,

Lord knows where this could end up.

And I'm afraid not only for the midterms, in a state like ours, we're gonna have a lot of primaries.

We may even have a statewide referendum about redistricting.

I could see these early elections this year as the trial run.

I don't believe my Republican colleagues.

I don't think Tom Cotton knew about this seizing of election machines in Puerto Rico.

It's so far beyond what her job is.

This is just not—it's bonkers.

And the fact that they are not informing us—but I guess I shouldn't be surprised.