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Mike Johnson: “You'd see them federalize elections so they could take over…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 34 of Government Shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 25:56

I guess that would be their calculation. You would see massive restriction of the Second Amendment, Second Amendment rights. You'd see them federalize elections so they could take over and manipulate things in the red states. I mean, there's a lot of abuses that could come. And so that's the caveat. That's what they're working through. And I, you know, I speak frankly and honestly with the president, and he's very passionate about this. (25:56–26:02)

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Asserts that Democrats would federalize elections to influence red states.

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