Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (D) joined Democracy Docket Founder Marc Elias to discuss President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting elections. Fontes explained how the action, if allowed to go forward, would disenfranchise voters, cause chaos and make it impossible for states to run free and fair elections.
“This is a power grab,” Fontes told Marc, referring to Trump’s voting order. “It’s part and parcel of the way authoritarians end up taking power … They do it very quickly across broad areas so that they don’t get a whole bunch of pushback because everybody’s running willy nilly all over the place.”
Fontes said he believes Trump is determined to undermine democracy.
“He doesn’t want us as Americans to have choices in who we pick as people in power,” Fontes said. “He wants to decide. And that’s so dangerous, and it is so anti-American.”