So I take Trump at his word when he says that I want to nationalize and federalize essentially elections.
I think sometimes people try to add sort of explanations and psychoanalyze Trump around these things.
But at least in this arena, I think he means exactly what he says.
And that means that instead of the states having autonomy and control over elections.
Different parts of the federal government.
He wants them and his allies who are in them, sort of part of those tentacles, to control this system.
It's Tuesday, September 8th.
I'm Jane Koston, and this is What A Day.
More survivors have been pulled from the rubble
over the weekend after last month's devastating glacier collapse in Nepal.
Here's hoping many more survivors are found.
Canada put tariffs on roughly $20 billion worth of American goods today in retaliation for Trump's very dumb trade war.
And the far-right Alternative for Germany party won a major election in an Eastern German state Sunday,
putting a right-wing extremist party closer to running a German state than at any time since World War II.
And as you remember, that ended badly.
But I want to talk about Trump and the midterms.
Joining me is Antonia Hilton, host of MS Now's The Assignment.
Antonia, welcome to Waterday.
Hey, thank you so much for having me.
So let's start with voting by mail, which Trump loves to do, but seems to hate to see.