"It has always been, I think, the fear, and now I think closer to the reality that the Trump administration is creating this mayhem, particularly in cities in swing states, in order to take control of the election, to say, 'Oh, the city's out of control, the state's out of control, you can't trust the state government, we just need to run the election in November,'" Murphy told host Dana Bash on CNN's "State of the Union."