Article 1, Section 4 of the Constitution places the times, the places, the manner of federal elections in the hands of the states, not in the hands of the president, not the White House, not in executive order. There is no clause in the Constitution, all law on the books, none, that allows a president to commandeer state election systems. No emergency power, no implied authority. No, because I just say so. The President's role is to faithfully execute the laws, not to rewrite the Constitution when the facts or the voters displease him. (01:10–01:22)
CLAIM
Asserts that no constitutional or legal provision allows a president to take over state election systems.
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