Kristi Noem snaps back amid anger over her claim she'll ensure the 'right people' elect the 'right leaders' in midterms

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Sunday 15 February 2026 17:25 EST


Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem doubled down on her assertion that her department assists in election security Sunday, telling critics that they were creating fake outrage after she asserted the “right people” would elect “the right leaders.”

Over the weekend, lawmakers, democracy advocates and political commentators raised alarm bells at Noem’s claim that her department, which oversees domestic security and immigration, played a role in safeguarding elections “to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders.”

But Noem brushed off those concerns, telling CNN anchor Jake Tapper and ABC News’s White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl: “It must be exhausting to regularly manufacture outrage even over the most commonsense statement.”

The secretary insisted she was referring to preventing non-citizens from voting through election infrastructure. It is already illegal for non-citizens to vote. “The choice of who to vote for is obviously up to the voters themselves,” Noem said.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/kristi-noem-midterm-elections-voting-b2920871.html

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[Botany]

1. A bald faced lie from Noem on the Range, "preventing non-citizens from voting"

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To vote you have to be a U.S. citizen. End of story. And just to register to vote you have to have proof
that you are a U.S. citizen. I did election work for 20 years.

And just about all undocumented immigrants will not try to register to vote let alone voting because
that would expose them as undocumented which could lead them to be deported.

[Retired05]

4. Thank you

Now if only the MAGA crowd could read and understand.

[Botany]

7. Welcome to DU. Have some breakfast.

[MayReasonRule]

11. Happy Monday To Ya'! -- Nice To Have You Join Us!

[Multichromatic]

15. That's not possible MAGA doesn't read or understand ANYTHING!!!

[Bengus81]

8. Yep...and the first vote that I cast was in Nov 1972. All these decades later I have yet

to go to my polling location and be told I can't vote because our records show you already have.


Total RW horseshit........

[travelingthrulife]

16. And of course, the spokesmodel hit her back with the microscopic voter fraud data.

How hard is to say that voter fraud that is about 0.0003-0.0025 percent (Per Brennan Center)

[Chasstev365]

2. Gaslighting at its finest

They make an outrageous statement, giving away the game that they will conduct massive voter suppression in the mid-terms, but were "manufacturing outrage."

I'm so tired of this cabinet of deplorables and the Orange Menace. Did Tapper let her off the hook and not challenge her?

[barbtries]

3. no, you stepped in it noem

you gave away your game.

I'm working the election and think about what they may do. I get to find out on the ground, in my town, in my precinct.

[KS Toronado]

5. The Pinocchio's are a fitting touch.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. She deserves ten times as many but...

I think we all know that!

[myohmy2]

6. why...

...are we celebrating Washington's birthday today...?

...we should be celebrating Hitler's birthday...

...republicans...

[twodogsbarking]

9. Where I grew up they would say there is nothing common about common sense.

The poster girl.

[Tasmanian Devil]

19. Re: common sense

“Common sense is not so common.” - Voltaire

"Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack." - Benjamin Franklin

[mwb970]

10. OMG what a horrible, horrible woman!

I didn't realize women could be this bad!

[Timeflyer]

12. "It must be exhausting..."? Isn't that the point of MAGA flooding the zone with BS, to exhaust opposition so we tire of

responding and resisting the BS, while democracy is destroyed one actual outrage after another?

[orangecrush]

13. Speaking of exhausting....

Her whole clown car.

[Jilly_in_VA]

17. ICE Barbie has no sense at all

let alone any of the common variety. Go back to bed with your side piece, Kristi!

[TBF]

18. Noem, I've got my passport and I'm ready to vote -

we are beginning tomorrow with early voting in Texas.

[Martin68]

20. Fox News and their MAGA clients have been faking outrage over nothing for years now. This is just the latest

example.