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A top Republican is warning that threats to the midterm elections are coming from 'within' the US government - putting her directly at odds with President Donald Trump and his allies in the final sprint to Election Day.
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Utah's Lieutenant Governor Deidre Henderson spoke frankly about her concerns in an interview with CBS News's 60 Minutes.
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She noted that the threats posed by Trump officials are unlike anything she's experienced in her nine-year tenure as Utah's election chief.
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'In the past two elections that I oversaw as lieutenant governor, the threats were all external,' Henderson told CBS News's Leslie Stahl.
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'But now we also have threats coming from within our own government,' she warned.
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Utah, in addition to other states, has resisted the Trump administration's efforts to gain access to its statewide voter information and restrict mail-in voting.
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But unlike many of the other states, Henderson oversees elections in Utah, a traditionally Republican state that voted for Trump in the last election by a whopping 20-point margin.
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President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Nebraska.
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Since taking office last January, Trump has suggested some 150 times that the vote cannot be trusted
The lieutenant governor of Utah, Deidre Henderson, is seen at a press conference in Salt Lake City.
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Henderson is going toe-to-toe with Trump on his claims of election fraud
Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter speaks during a press conference at DOJ in September.
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McCotter said that an election worker in Utah was indicted for allegedly throwing away ballots
Last month, Henderson was notified by DOJ officials that she is under investigation and could face jail time for any noncitizen voting in Utah.
'You are toe-to-toe with the president of the United States,' Stahl said.
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'It's a big thing you're doing.'
'I think this is an important thing for me to do; holding these guardrails, holding the line,' she said.
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'Someone has to.'
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The remarks come as the Justice Department and Trump have moved to aggressively crack down on voter fraud and noncitizen voting, despite widespread evidence that these instances are incredibly rare.
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In Utah, for example, Henderson noted that state audits had found just 52 'questionable' voting incidents out of more than 2 million votes cast - just 'two thousandths of one percent,' as Stahl noted.
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It's not the first time that Henderson, a Republican, has invoked the wrath of the Trump administration.
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Demonstrators participate in a 'No Kings' protest held at the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City
Harmeet Dhillon, the head of DOJ's Civil Rights Division, is seen in speaking at a TPUSA event in 2022.
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Dhillion is helping lead the charge on the Trump administration's voting crackdown
Last year, she refused to share Utah's state 'voter registration list' with the Justice Department - joining 28 other states who refused to do so and were later sued by Trump's DOJ.
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The Justice Department has yet to triumph in any of these lawsuits.
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'They wanted things that we typically are required by law to keep private,' Henderson said of DOJ's requests, which included information such as voters' social security numbers, full dates of birth, and drivers' license numbers.
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'We just weren't given very good answers and we were concerned about what they would do with that data,' Henderson said.
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Trump, for his part, has signed two executive orders aimed at tightening voter registration and attempted to federalize mail-in ballots - sparking concerns from state leaders, who argue these actions run afoul of the US Constitution.
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