Republican governor asks his AG to look into ‘aggressive’ behavior by Trump admin’s election monitors - CNN

The Justice Department sent two Civil Rights Division attorneys to Laramie County, which includes the state capital of Cheyenne. Gordon said state officials, including the attorney general, were not told in advance that the federal monitors were coming.

Gordon raised the issue at a state canvassing board meeting Wednesday. "It sounded like the behavior of the observers was a bit aggressive," he said, describing the situation as "irregular." The lack of coordination between the federal government and state officials appears to be at the center of the complaint, not the presence of monitors themselves.

For folks in Lubbock watching national politics, this one is worth a second look. A Republican governor pushing back against his own party's administration over election oversight does not happen every day. Gordon is no Democrat looking for a fight. Wyoming is among the reddest states in the country, which makes the friction between its governor and the Trump Justice Department more unusual than a typical partisan dispute.

The episode raises an open question about how much coordination the Trump administration plans to offer states before sending federal monitors into future elections.