"The one person who has no constitutional authority over federal elections is the president." Fearing the chief executive's ambition, the Founders gave him, "quite literally, no role at all in the federal election system. None. Trump’s executive order on elections ignores that design entirely."
@walterolson.bsky.social The problem with that position is that Congress was given authority to pass laws with regard to Federal elections, which means the executive must have authority over them or else those laws would be moot.