New Delhi, Feb. 4 -- US President Donald Trump said Republicans should "nationalize" elections and "take over" voting in at least 15 places, renewing his unsubstantiated claims that US elections are plagued by widespread fraud.

Speaking on The Dan Bongino Show podcast on February 2, Trump gave no specifics on which states or locations he was referring to, or how such a takeover would be implemented.

"The Republicans should say, we want to take over. We should take over the voting. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting," Trump said.

Trump's remarks suggest shifting control of elections away from individual states and toward a centralized federal authority or nationally controlled system. Currently, US elections are administere...