Indiana leaders say states should keep running elections

Catch up quick: Trump told podcaster Dan Bongino, the recently departed FBI deputy director, that Republicans should "nationalize" voting.

• "The Republicans should say, 'We want to take over. We should take over the voting.' … In at least many, 15 places, the Republicans ought to nationalize the voting," he said while repeating his false claim that he won in 2020.

Between the lines: The U.S. Constitution gives Congress broad authority to override state election rules.

What they're saying: Republican leaders of the Indiana House and Senate said they think elections within the purview of the state and best handled at that level.

• "I think that's a state operation and … Indiana does really well," Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray (R-Martinsville) told reporters last week. "We've got a lot of integrity in that."