[Update 3]:
(July 11)
Axelrod: ‘Signals are flashing red’ over potential Trump election interference
Sarah Davis
Fri, July 10, 2026
David Axelrod warned on Friday of possible election interference in the midterms after President Trump fired the remaining Democratic members of the Election Assistance Commission on Thursday.
"All the signals are flashing red, the latest being @POTUS's summary dismissal of the remaining Federal Election Assistance Commission members," the Democratic strategist wrote in a social media post.
The commission is a bipartisan and independent board established in 2002 to help voters participate in the election process and assists election officials. Republican member Christy McCormick also resigned on Thursday.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) criticized the firings as a "brazen attempt to seize control of our elections" in a statement.
"Senate Democrats will fight this power grab at every turn," he wrote. "The American people — not Donald Trump — will decide the 2026 election."
The White House sought to justify the move, saying in a statement that Trump "reserves the right to remove individuals that may not be totally aligned with the important task of securing America's elections and ensuring every legal vote is counted."
The president has repeated false allegations of widespread voter fraud in 2020 and directed his administration to investigate voting records from the election following his loss to former President Biden.
Axelrod also cited the president's controversial appointment of Bill Pulte as acting director of National Intelligence, his executive order targeting mail-in ballot voting and his "pathological prioritization" of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act.
This legislation, which would place proof of citizenship requirements on voter registration and require a photo ID when casting a ballot, would "be the most powerful voter suppression tool in generations," according to Axelrod.
"On the square, the @GOP would take a beating this fall, largely because of Trump's unpopularity," the political strategist said in a post on the social platform X. "So he's setting up Plan B–do whatever you need to do to win. Anything. Anyone who says 'Well, he wouldn't do THAT' hasn't paid attention. He's already proven he will!"
Axelrod also warned that the fallout of the midterm elections could be "even more turbulent."
"The courts are going to be very busy this fall," he added.
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[Update 2]:
(July 10)Trump spent months trying to bypass a federal election commission and use emergency powers to force changes to voting machines, before President Donald Trump shut down the commission on Thursday.
Lawmakers criticized the firings of commission officers as an attempt to snatch control over U.S. elections from the States to the Federal government. Trump is acting like a dictator trying to take control of elections, which would allow him to cheat his way into a fraudulent victory for his MAGA morons in Congress.
Absent a quorum and its four officers, the independent Election Assistance Commission is now inoperational. Trump might appoint his own subservient men to replace the agency's officers, but since these appointments require approval by the Senate and two of the four officers must be Democrats, Trump will probably let the agency die off so as not to pose any obstacles to his cheating.
Lawmakers criticized the firings of commission officers as an attempt to snatch control over U.S. elections from the States to the Federal government. Trump is acting like a dictator trying to take control of elections, which would allow him to cheat his way into a fraudulent victory for his MAGA morons in Congress.
Absent a quorum and its four officers, the independent Election Assistance Commission is now inoperational. Trump might appoint his own subservient men to replace the agency's officers, but since these appointments require approval by the Senate and two of the four officers must be Democrats, Trump will probably let the agency die off so as not to pose any obstacles to his cheating.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, called the dismissals a "brazen attempt to seize control of our elections before a single vote is cast" in the midterms. "He is gutting the independent agency that certifies voting systems and helps election officials run secure elections," Schumer said.
Election administration experts said the commission often moves slowly in its work because voting systems are complex, the technology is evolving, and policy changes involve extensive public feedback.
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[Update 1]:
According to its website, the Election Assistance Commission is a national clearinghouse of information on election administration that accredits testing laboratories and certifies voting systems, and maintains the national mail voter registration form developed by the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, .
Senator Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, said on Thursday that the firing of the Commission should "concern every American, regardless of party....Removing every remaining commissioner just months before the 2026 midterm elections is an extraordinary step that demands an immediate explanation from the administration and raises profound concerns about political interference in the institutions that support our elections".
Donald Dumb has just fired (July 09) the 4-member independent Election Assistance Commission, a federal commission in charge of assisting state election officials.
Trump has been pushing for federalizing the voting process, traditionally the purview of the states. This move is incompatible with standard Republican ideological opposition to a federal government's role in state affairs, and is therefore seen as a way for Trump to take control of elections from the States and sway them in favor of Republicans by cheating, claiming fraud, harassing state elections officials and denying potential Democrat voters access to the voting booth. Getting rid of the Commission removes one guardrail against Trump's cheating in the elections. It is unclear if he will replace the members of the Commission, two Democrats and two Republicans, or if he will do away with it.
Trump has been pushing for federalizing the voting process, traditionally the purview of the states. This move is incompatible with standard Republican ideological opposition to a federal government's role in state affairs, and is therefore seen as a way for Trump to take control of elections from the States and sway them in favor of Republicans by cheating, claiming fraud, harassing state elections officials and denying potential Democrat voters access to the voting booth. Getting rid of the Commission removes one guardrail against Trump's cheating in the elections. It is unclear if he will replace the members of the Commission, two Democrats and two Republicans, or if he will do away with it.
In addition to inciting an insurrection and attack on Congress by a violent armed mob of his followers on January 6, 2021 trying to block Joe Biden's election certification, Trump has since repeatedly lied by continuing to claim without evidence that the 2020 election was rigged, and despite hundreds of court rulings that found no evidence of fraud.
According to its website, the Election Assistance Commission is a national clearinghouse of information on election administration that accredits testing laboratories and certifies voting systems, and maintains the national mail voter registration form developed by the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, .
Senator Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, said on Thursday that the firing of the Commission should "concern every American, regardless of party....Removing every remaining commissioner just months before the 2026 midterm elections is an extraordinary step that demands an immediate explanation from the administration and raises profound concerns about political interference in the institutions that support our elections".
[End of update 1]
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The writing is on the wall. Cheater-in-Chief Donald Dumb will literally engage in any illegal or immoral act to prevent his losing Congress in the November midterms. His record is one of the most criminal ones in the history of the country, and just like his Zionist friends, he claims to be a victim of the crimes he himself commits.Watch out America. Donald Dumb is about to wreck the elections because he knows he is losing them. He will post his ICE-GESTAPO police at voting precincts to scare people. He will claim the voting machines were tampered with. He will claim that dead people have voted (somehow he thinks that dead people vote Democrat!!). He will threaten people in charge of the elections if they don't cheat along with him. And best of all, he already is saying that the elections would be fair if his bastard MAGA candidates win, but if his MAGA moron candidates lose it would be because the Democrats cheated.
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Doomsday speculation about the midterm elections takes hold
Juan Williams, opinion contributor
Doomsday speculation about the midterm elections takes hold
Juan Williams, opinion contributor
Mon, July 6, 2026
"They're animals," President Trump said about the success of leftists in this year's Democratic primaries. "We have to stop this…horrible threat of cancer that's permeating our country called communism," he told right-wing evangelicals in a desperate effort to stir fear about Democrats.
The Washington Post described his words as "dehumanizing," and similar to 1950s "redbaiting," attacks on Democrats that led the U.S. Senate to censure the infamous Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.).
Trump is pushing every button with the November midterms getting closer.
As his poll numbers sink to 61 percent disapproval in a Fox survey, Trump is frantic for any tactic to stop Democrats from taking control of the House and possibly winning a Senate majority.
He is even planning a national Republican convention before the midterms.
He wants to distract from RealClearPolitics polls that show Democrats with the advantage in generic congressional voting, holding about a 5-point edge on Republicans.
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) warned last month that Trump is willing to "deny the results of midterms if they do not go his way…do not let this scare you: show up, vote, and fight like this country depends on you — because it does." Slotkin's words presaged Trump's refusal last week to sign a bipartisan bill to create more affordable housing.
That potential win for the Republican majority went to waste because Trump's focus is on having Congress pass the SAVE Act, to require more identification from voters in an effort to depress turnout among Democrats.
Congressional Republicans don't have the votes but Trump delights in the deadlock and talk about election fraud. As a result, the Republican majority in the House left town for an early July 4 break without passing a defense policy bill.
Trump's fixation with stopping a blue wave in the midterms now defines all politics.
Around the country, the president has already succeeded in pressing Republican state legislators to draw new congressional districts to increase the number of seats likely to be won by Republicans.
The Supreme Court made history by weakening the Voting Rights Act to allow some of that mid-decade redistricting. That ruling ignited racial tensions nationally by allowing white Republican state legislators to dismantle majority Black districts that vote for Democrats.
Trump has also pushed the Justice Department to force states to give him access to voter registration rolls so that he can look for voters he thinks should not be allowed to vote.
He still refuses to admit he lost the 2020 presidential election. To this day, most Republican voters do not even support that fraudulent claim. And he has pardoned supporters who led a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol in an effort to stop certification of the 2020 election.
It is hard to believe but earlier this year, when confronted with the historical pattern of midterm losses for the party in power, Trump told Reuters: "When you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election."
Now doomsday speculation about the fall election is taking hold in conversations among insiders on Capitol Hill. Political players on both sides of the aisle casually speculate that Trump will press Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to refuse to seat Democrats who would form a new House majority.
That fear grows because the scenario has precedent.
Last year, Johnson delayed the swearing-in of Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) for nearly two months after she won a special election, in order to shield the president from the release of embarrassing files about his decades-long friendship with notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Johnson already did this to delay release of files on Epstein and child sexual abuse. Election rigging is small ball by comparison. More recently, Johnson amplified Trump's unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud in California without any evidence of any irregularity.
Most telling in listening to the current rush of scary political fantasy is that it takes the lid off a pot of boiling anxiety with four months to go before the midterms.
The basics of the script is consistent: Democrats win enough competitive House races to claim a majority, but the Speaker delays or refuses to seat members from closely contested districts — citing bogus allegations of voter fraud or unresolved close election disputes.
The fight inevitably lands before the conservative Republican majority on the Supreme Court who has already shown itself to be corrupt and serving partisan interests that protect Trump from accountability.
With potential legal and personal accountability awaiting Trump and his aides if Democrats take control of House subpoena powers, the president prefers having Republicans now in Congress and, ultimately, the Supreme Court decide the election.
Add to that a nation that has grown accustomed to the threatening presence of Trump-controlled military and law enforcement agents in Washington, where Congress ultimately decides the disputed House elections.
It is a constitutional crisis waiting to happen — the "sum of all fears" that could bring the American experiment, now celebrating its 250th anniversary, to its greatest test.
This would all be a bad political satire if it was not so scary. Comedian Bill Maher summed up Trump's approach to elections during a recent interview with Vice President JD Vance: "Under Trump, you guys have two outcomes an election can be: Either we win, or they cheated. That s— has to stop."
Maher is right. It has to stop.
Juan Williams is senior political analyst for Fox News Channel and a prize-winning civil rights historian. He is the author of the new book "New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America's Second Civil Rights Movement."
The Washington Post described his words as "dehumanizing," and similar to 1950s "redbaiting," attacks on Democrats that led the U.S. Senate to censure the infamous Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.).
Trump is pushing every button with the November midterms getting closer.
As his poll numbers sink to 61 percent disapproval in a Fox survey, Trump is frantic for any tactic to stop Democrats from taking control of the House and possibly winning a Senate majority.
He is even planning a national Republican convention before the midterms.
He wants to distract from RealClearPolitics polls that show Democrats with the advantage in generic congressional voting, holding about a 5-point edge on Republicans.
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) warned last month that Trump is willing to "deny the results of midterms if they do not go his way…do not let this scare you: show up, vote, and fight like this country depends on you — because it does." Slotkin's words presaged Trump's refusal last week to sign a bipartisan bill to create more affordable housing.
That potential win for the Republican majority went to waste because Trump's focus is on having Congress pass the SAVE Act, to require more identification from voters in an effort to depress turnout among Democrats.
Congressional Republicans don't have the votes but Trump delights in the deadlock and talk about election fraud. As a result, the Republican majority in the House left town for an early July 4 break without passing a defense policy bill.
Trump's fixation with stopping a blue wave in the midterms now defines all politics.
Around the country, the president has already succeeded in pressing Republican state legislators to draw new congressional districts to increase the number of seats likely to be won by Republicans.
The Supreme Court made history by weakening the Voting Rights Act to allow some of that mid-decade redistricting. That ruling ignited racial tensions nationally by allowing white Republican state legislators to dismantle majority Black districts that vote for Democrats.
Trump has also pushed the Justice Department to force states to give him access to voter registration rolls so that he can look for voters he thinks should not be allowed to vote.
He still refuses to admit he lost the 2020 presidential election. To this day, most Republican voters do not even support that fraudulent claim. And he has pardoned supporters who led a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol in an effort to stop certification of the 2020 election.
It is hard to believe but earlier this year, when confronted with the historical pattern of midterm losses for the party in power, Trump told Reuters: "When you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election."
Now doomsday speculation about the fall election is taking hold in conversations among insiders on Capitol Hill. Political players on both sides of the aisle casually speculate that Trump will press Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to refuse to seat Democrats who would form a new House majority.
That fear grows because the scenario has precedent.
Last year, Johnson delayed the swearing-in of Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) for nearly two months after she won a special election, in order to shield the president from the release of embarrassing files about his decades-long friendship with notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Johnson already did this to delay release of files on Epstein and child sexual abuse. Election rigging is small ball by comparison. More recently, Johnson amplified Trump's unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud in California without any evidence of any irregularity.
Most telling in listening to the current rush of scary political fantasy is that it takes the lid off a pot of boiling anxiety with four months to go before the midterms.
The basics of the script is consistent: Democrats win enough competitive House races to claim a majority, but the Speaker delays or refuses to seat members from closely contested districts — citing bogus allegations of voter fraud or unresolved close election disputes.
The fight inevitably lands before the conservative Republican majority on the Supreme Court who has already shown itself to be corrupt and serving partisan interests that protect Trump from accountability.
With potential legal and personal accountability awaiting Trump and his aides if Democrats take control of House subpoena powers, the president prefers having Republicans now in Congress and, ultimately, the Supreme Court decide the election.
Add to that a nation that has grown accustomed to the threatening presence of Trump-controlled military and law enforcement agents in Washington, where Congress ultimately decides the disputed House elections.
It is a constitutional crisis waiting to happen — the "sum of all fears" that could bring the American experiment, now celebrating its 250th anniversary, to its greatest test.
This would all be a bad political satire if it was not so scary. Comedian Bill Maher summed up Trump's approach to elections during a recent interview with Vice President JD Vance: "Under Trump, you guys have two outcomes an election can be: Either we win, or they cheated. That s— has to stop."
Maher is right. It has to stop.
Juan Williams is senior political analyst for Fox News Channel and a prize-winning civil rights historian. He is the author of the new book "New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America's Second Civil Rights Movement."
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