By Donald Judd，3小时前
发布于 2026年2月3日，美国东部时间下午6:45
周二，总统唐纳德·特朗普声称“各州在选举中是联邦政府的代理人”，他以此为自己呼吁共和党人将选举“国家化”进行辩护。
“我希望选举是公正的——如果一个州无法主持选举，我认为我身后的人应该对此采取行动，”特朗普在椭圆形办公室与共和党议员举行签署仪式时告诉美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）的凯特兰·柯林斯。
“各州在选举中是联邦政府的代理人。我不知道联邦政府为什么不直接接管这些事务，”他表示，并补充说，一些州“糟糕地”管理选举的方式是“令人蒙羞的”。
选举由州和地方官员管理，联邦政府仅发挥有限作用。但这并没有阻止特朗普试图改革选举的进行方式，因为他的政府正推动在中期选举前修改规则。
总统提到了亚特兰大——不到一周前，联邦调查局（FBI）搜查了当地一个选举办公室，这是司法部调查所谓选民欺诈的一部分——以及其他民主党占主导地位的城市，称这些地方存在“可怕的选举腐败”。
“联邦政府不应该允许这种情况发生，”他周二表示。“联邦政府应该介入。这些（州）是负责计票的联邦政府代理人。如果他们不能合法、公正地计票，那么应该由其他人接管。”
柯林斯追问特朗普有关宪法中规定地方官员管理选举的条款，特朗普回应称：“他们可以管理选举，但必须公正地进行。”
当天早些时候，白宫新闻秘书卡罗琳·利维特告诉记者，特朗普在周一播出的采访中呼吁共和党人“将投票国家化”时，指的是需要一项全国性的选民身份证要求。
“总统所指的是《防止选举欺诈法案》（SAVE Act），”利维特向记者解释道，该立法将要求登记投票时提供公民身份证明。“它为我国的投票提供了非常合理的措施，比如选民身份证。”非公民在联邦选举中本就被禁止投票。
特朗普多次承诺要改变美国的投票方式，他错误地声称某些方法会导致欺诈性投票，并发起了罕见的中期十年重新划分选区运动，旨在帮助共和党赢得更多美国众议院席位。
Trump says states are agents of federal government in elections
By Donald Judd, 3 hr ago
PUBLISHED Feb 3, 2026, 6:45 PM ET
President Donald Trump on Tuesday claimed that “a state is an agent for the federal government in elections,” as he defended his call for Republicans to nationalize elections.
“I want to see elections be honest — and if a state can’t run an election, I think the people behind me should do something about it,” Trump told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins during an Oval Office signing ceremony with Republican lawmakers.
“A state is an agent for the federal government in elections. I don’t know why the federal government doesn’t do them anyway,” he said, adding that it’s a “disgrace” how “horribly” some states run elections.
Elections are run by state and local officials, with the federal government playing only a limited role. But that hasn’t stopped Trump from attempting to revamp how elections are conducted, as his administration pushes to overhaul rules ahead of the midterm elections.
The president named Atlanta, where less than a week ago the FBI searched an elections office as part of a Justice Department probe into alleged voter fraud, and other cities with Democratic strongholds as seeing “horrible corruption on elections.”
“The federal government should not allow that,” he said Tuesday. “The federal government should get involved. These are agents of the federal government to count the votes. If they can’t count the votes legally and honestly, then somebody else should take over.”
Pressed by Collins on the provisions in the Constitution that local officials administer elections, Trump said, “They can administer the election, but they have to do it honestly.”
Earlier in the day, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that Trump was talking about the need for a national voter ID requirement when he called on Republicans to “nationalize the voting” in an interview that aired Monday.
“What the president was referring to is the SAVE Act,” Leavitt told reporters, referring to legislation that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote. “It provides very commonsense measures for voting in our country, such as voter ID.” Noncitizens are already prohibited from voting in federal elections.
On several occasions, Trump has pledged to change how the country votes, zeroing in on methods he falsely claims lead to fraudulent voting and kicking off a rare mid-decade redistricting campaign intended to help Republicans win additional US House seats.
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