Senior officials and election activists met to push for federal control of elections ahead of the midterms.
“declare a national emergency”
“to take over this year’s midterms”
“ban mail-in ballots and get rid of voting machines” 
“Election integrity” framed as removing the system people use to vote.
Foreign threat claims are the kind of predicate that makes ‘national emergency’ arguments legible.
Emergency powers → federal override of state-run elections → rules rewritten from the top down.
From SOTU (this week):
From today (same week):
‘Ended wars’ guy started more.
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