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Elissa Slotkin: “It requires that President Trump come to Congress to get…”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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Slotkin Announces Protect our Polls Act

Published | Video Starts at 04:08

So instead of waiting to see what happens in 2020, we are trying to take some action here. So we're introducing per Protect Our Polls act. And it does three big things. Number. Number one, It requires that President Trump come to Congress to get approval before he would ever deploy uniform military to our polls. There is only one legal way to send uniform military to the polls on our books, and that is to, quote, repel armed enemies of the United States. (04:08–04:18)

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