Lara Trump, co-chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC) and wife of Donald Trump‘s son Eric, has said that, after her father-in-law’s inauguration, the Republican-controlled government should look into changing the U.S. election process.
Talking to Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday after her father-in-law’s historic victory about how to make the election process more secure and transparent, Lara Trump said that with Donald Trump in office, a GOP majority in the Senate and potentially in the House as well, the Republican Party finally has a chance to address the issues “99 percent plus of Americans agree on.” These include, according to Lara Trump and Hannity, proof of citizenship and voter IDs.
“We don’t have a perfect system right now,” she told Hannity. “We have to get through this system, we have to play the hand that we were dealt. You have election season now instead of election day, and a lot of nuance around the country that makes it very confusing and really concerning for a lot of people.”
“Maybe now it’s the time, once Donald Trump is inaugurated, we go forward and maybe we have something that passes so that we can have a blanket federal election process that every state abides by and we feel very good about it all across the country,” she suggested….
“Congress has broad powers to regulate congressional elections in Article I, section 4, [of the U.S. Constitution]” Rick Hasen, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, told Newsweek.
“In my experience, state and local election officials strongly resist attempts to centralize any election administration powers in the federal government,” he added. “Usually it is Republicans who strongly resist federalization of elections. So this will be interesting to watch if it happens.”…