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Trump teases election jaw-dropper to MAGA fanatic: 'Stranger things have happened'

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President Donald Trump teased an unprecedented move to take federal control of the midterm elections after a MAGA ally planted the idea in his head. Real America's Voice radio host Wayne Allyn Root and other right-wing election deniers have been shopping a fringe legal theory to give the president king-like powers over the November elections to ensure Republican control of Congress, and ran it past Trump during an appearance Tuesday on his program. "So let me put an idea in your head, okay, because it's so hard to get the Senate to do anything," Root said. "Now they're on recess; they don't get anything done. If they never get the SAVE America Act done, you have the right to declare a national security emergency for elections, and the Supreme Court ruled in 1983 under Reagan, in INS v. Chadha, if you declare a national security emergency as the president of the United States, they can't challenge it. It can only be overturned by a two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress." "So if you