{"id":315735,"date":"2026-02-06T03:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/how-constitutional-is-trumps-push-to-decimate-local-control-of-elections-and-nationalize-voting\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T03:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:00:26","slug":"how-constitutional-is-trumps-push-to-decimate-local-control-of-elections-and-nationalize-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/how-constitutional-is-trumps-push-to-decimate-local-control-of-elections-and-nationalize-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"How constitutional is Trump&#8217;s push to decimate local control of elections and &#8216;nationalize&#8217; voting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/swd6EJnmxhs\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"How constitutional is Trump's push to decimate local control of elections and 'nationalize' voting?\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/swd6EJnmxhs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump is continuing his messaging to sow distrust over the integrity of the 2020 elections, as well as upcoming 2026 midterms. The FBI&#8217;s raid of Fulton County election offices in Georgia to seize 2020 ballots points to the Trump administration&#8217;s broader strategy of taking control of elections away from local bodies, as prescribed by the US Constitution. Trump&#8217;s call to &#8216;nationalize the voting&#8217; has drawn mixed responses from the Republican party, and has legal scholars worried about the dangerous precedent it could set. <\/p>\n<p>Chapter Breakdown<br \/>\n0:00 Trump&#8217;s efforts to assert federal control over US elections<br \/>\nFor more news go to: http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/<br \/>\n1:31 Karen Sebold, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Fayetteville, Arkansas, on how Trump&#8217;s strategy to &#8216;nationalize voting&#8217; would require Constitutional amendments<\/p>\n<p>#trumpelections<br \/>\n#federalcontrolofelections<br \/>\n#fultoncounty <\/p>\n<p>Follow DW on social media:<br \/>\n\u25baInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baTikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/deutschewellenews\/<br \/>\n\u25baTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/dwnews<\/p>\n<p>F\u00fcr Videos in deutscher Sprache besuchen Sie: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/dwdeutsch<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/deutschewelleenglish?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump is continuing his messaging to sow distrust over the integrity of the 2020 elections, as well as upcoming 2026 midterms. The FBI&#8217;s raid of Fulton County election offices in Georgia to seize 2020 ballots points to the Trump administration&#8217;s broader strategy of taking control of elections away from local bodies, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":315736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130889],"tags":[129047,128815,129382],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-315735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dw-news","tag-donald","tag-president","tag-trump"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How constitutional is Trump&#039;s push to decimate local control of elections and &#039;nationalize&#039; voting? | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch How constitutional is Trump&#039;s push to decimate local control of elections and &#039;nationalize&#039; voting? for free, here on News ISC. 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