host: aaron dority covers politics for axios. you can follow her on axios.com. thank you so much for being here this morning. guest: thank you. host: we continue with our open forum here on "washington journal," up until about 9:15 eastern. (202)-748-8000, the line to call for democrats. republicans, use (202)-748-8001. independents and all others, (202)-748-8002. donald is in omaha, nebraska on the independent line. good morning. caller: i had a question for that young lady that was just there. is there any truth to what aoc said about trump giving the manhattan d.a. $85,000 to drop charges against his children? host: our guest is not with us, but i will leave your question there we will go to conway, arkansas to hear from dan on the republican line. caller: thanks for taking my call. it seems to me that the democrats are trying to stack indictment on top of indictment against donald trump. my question is, and i read this somewhere, i don't know if it is true or not, that no other presidential candidate in history has been under indictment while running. is tha

host: aaron dority covers politics for axios. you can follow her on axios.com. >> washington journal continues. host: with us, currently the senior fellow at the american enterprise institute. he is here this morning to talk about confidence in elections and about a couple of pieces of legislation introduced in the house on election law reform. we want to start with a recent poll done by the associated press and north on the confidence in the 2024 elections. only 44% of all adults have a high confidence, highly confident the votes will be counted accurately. that is 71%. democrats believe that. independent, much lower, to any percent. and 22%. if you look at the past elections, there has been very little proven fraud. what is behind the confidence -- lack of confidence? guest: we all wish we had more confidence. there is a good system that we should be more confident in. one thing to watch in those numbers that reflects who is in power is when you win in an election, the party in power tends to be more confident and when they los

host: aaron dority covers politics for axios. you can follow her on axios.com.ou so much for being here this morning. guest: thank you. host: we continue with our open forum here on "washington journal," up until about 9:15 eastern. (202)-748-8000, the line to call for democrats. republicans, use (202)-748-8001. independents and all others, (202)-748-8002. donald is in omaha, nebraska on the independent line. good morning. caller: i had a question for that young lady that was just there. is there any truth to what aoc said about trump giving the manhattan d.a. $85,000 to drop charges against his children? host: our guest is not with us, but i will leave your question there we will go to conway, arkansas to hear from dan on the republican line. caller: thanks for taking my call. it seems to me that the democrats are trying to stack indictment on top of indictment against donald trump. my question is, and i read this somewhere, i don't know if it is true or not, that no other presidential candidate in history has been under indictment while running. is that true?

host: aaron dority covers politics for axios. you can follow her on axios.com.