On Thursday, CBS Mornings sounded the alarm over the Trump administration's attempt to investigate potential illegal voting, framing door to door visits by Department of Homeland Security agents as a threat to democracy.
Correspondent Nicole Sganga highlighted concerns about voter intimidation with emphasis on the lack of evidence that noncitizen voting is widespread. In her rush to spotlight the dangers of Trump’s efforts, Sganga gave viewers little reason to consider why officials are investigating election integrity in the first place.
Sganga explained that the visits were “part of a surge initiative to crackdown on so-called criminal voter fraud focused on nine states,” before noting that a federal judge had ordered the operations to stop.
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