Trump suggests GOP should 'take over' voting process in multiple states ahead of midterms

President Trump suggested in an interview with former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino on Monday that Republicans should "take over" the voting process in more than a dozen states ahead of the November midterms.

"The Republicans should say, 'We want to take over — we should take over the voting — the voting in at least many, 15 places,'" Trump told Bongino in the interview. "The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting."

The president also reiterated false claims that he won the 2020 election and said that "we have states that I won that show I didn't win."

White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said in a statement when asked about the president's comments that Trump "cares deeply about the safety and security of our elections."

"That's why he's urged Congress to pass the SAVE Act and other legislative proposals that would establish a uniform standard of photo ID for voting, prohibit no-excuse mail-in voting, and end the practice of ballot harvesting," she said, referring to legislation that would require proof of citizenship in order to register to vote.