undermine state and local control of elections. the democrat, laura, would like to nationalize everything. they want the fwrederal governmt to take over broad swaths of the election process because they think that would somehow benefit them. natasha, let s turn to you. he talks about localizing versus nationalizing. the truth is we put up that list a moment ago. the number of the bills were election security have been bipartisan or at least they ve had bipartisan support. but if what mcconnell just said is true, then why hasn t he brought senator lankford or senator rubio s proposal to the floor at least for a vote? yeah, we have to remember also this is the exact same argument that he used in 2016 when he was trying to prevent the department of homeland security from designating election infrastructure as critical infrastructure. that would have provided extra protection to election vendors and to the states and during the 2016 election that might have prevented some of the intrus