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How Trump May Be Changing the Elections Process
Episode 1642

How Trump May Be Changing the Elections Process

Ari Berman talks about the "rapidly escalating" threats to America’s election system and how the Trump administration is making it harder to vote in 2026.

The Brian Lehrer Show

September 15, 202550m 23s

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Show Notes

Ari Berman, voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones and author of Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024), talks about his latest article on the "rapidly escalating" threats to America’s election system, including how the Trump administration is making it harder to vote, the DOJ's civil rights division has dropped cases investigating gerrymandered maps in states such as Arizona, Georgia, and Texas and more.

Topics

electionsrepublicansvotingdemocracygerrymanderingpoliticslocal_wnycvoter suppressionjustice_departmentmaga