Sen. Slotkin to introduce bill to bar presidents from sending troops or armed feds to polling places

Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., plans to introduce a bill Thursday that would ban the president from sending armed military or federal agents to polling sites during American elections

Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., plans to introduce a bill Thursday that would ban the president from sending armed military or federal agents to polling sites during American elections.

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The legislation, Slotkin said in a statement, would prevent President Donald Trump from “weaponizing our military and armed federal officers to interfere in our elections.”

The bill is backed by several other Democratic senators, including those representing electoral battleground states, like Sens. Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly of Arizona, Jacky Rosen of Nevada, Raphael Warnock of Georgia and Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin.