Trump says he has not decided whether to run for president again in 2024. But just in case, he wants to choose as many referees as he can before the contest begins.
If he ever finds himself disputing a vote count or trying to block a state’s electoral votes, he wants someone who owes him a favor on the other end of the phone.
Trey Grayson, a Republican who was Kentucky’s secretary of state until 2011, agrees. “As a Republican, I’m really bothered by how Trump is recruiting people for these jobs based only on whether they are personally loyal to him,” he told me. “The worst thing about it is that it’s all based on a lie” — the groundless claim that the 2020 election was stolen.“The function of the job is basically counting the votes under the laws that are on the books,” he said. “Counting votes is counting votes.
“The secretary of state can create uncertainty or cause delays,” Grayson said. “Eventually, the courts will rein you in, but you can cause problems in the short run.”
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