[UPDATED] Trump is Immediate and Imminent Threat to Fair Elections

He tried to cheat on the 2024 elections by sending a violent heavily armed mob to attack Congress. Don't you think that a bottom-feeding criminal felon will try again in 2026 and 2028?

HOW MUCH LONGER ARE YOU WILLING TO SEE THIS SOURPUSS JACKASS LOSER WRECKING YOUR LIFE SO HE MAKES MORE BILLIONS OFF YOUR BACKS?

[See update further below]
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Democrats warn of a Trump election takeover. What’s really happening?
Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN
Sat, July 11, 2026 


Maine residents cast their ballots at a polling station in Augusta, Maine, on June 9, 2026. - CJ Gunther/Getty Images

Democrats are reaching DEFCON 1 levels of alarm about President Donald Trump's efforts to influence the coming election.

"All the signals are flashing red," wrote Democratic strategist and CNN political analyst David Axelrod in a post on X.

"On the square, the @GOP would take a beating this fall, largely because of Trump's unpopularity," Axelrod said, "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."

Use your imagination, in other words, and don't be surprised at anything Trump does in the four months until Election Day.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Florida Democrat, told CNN's John Berman on Friday that people in her overwhelmingly Democratic district are frightened about what might happen in November.

"For the first time in my whole career, John, I have voters telling me that they're worried that the president's going to cancel elections, that he's going to declare martial law. There are people who are actually have said to me that they're worried that they're not even going to have elections in November," Wasserman Schultz said.

She said she tries to reassure her constituents about their more alarmist fears.
Republicans already drew themselves an advantage

Wasserman Schultz is running in a congressional district redrawn as part of the GOP's larger effort to adjust maps to their benefit before November. Democrats countered with their own new maps in states including California, but Republicans were more successful in courts and could net as many as 10 seats in November from new maps drawn during the redistricting war, according to CNN's most recent assessment.

What else is the White House doing to help Republicans in November?

In the US, states are tasked with running their own elections, but Axelrod ticked off a litany of actions that the Trump administration has undertaken to influence them.

The most recent example is Trump's firing on Thursday of three of the four commissioners on the Election Assistance Commission, an agency Congress set up in 2002 as an independent bipartisan resource to dole out federal money to help states conduct secure elections. It's not the only election-related entity to be hobbled. The Federal Election Commission, which handles campaign finance issues, also lacks a quorum of commissioners to operate.

The EAC firings are just one piece of evidence Axelrod offered. I've added context to each of his points below.

… Put that together with political hack Pulte's odious appt as DNI;

(Trump temporarily installed Bill Pulte, a wealthy businessman-turned-housing official, as Director of National Intelligence. While overseeing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac he controversially targeted Trump's political opponents with accusations of mortgage fraud. Pulte lacks intelligence experience, but does have deep ties to the GOP. CNN has reported Trump wants Pulte to focus on election security issues, a nontraditional mandate for the spy chief.)

… election deniers in the most sensitive oversight positions;

(An election denier is president, after all, and he has appointed people who share his views of the 2020 election, which he refuses to admit he lost, throughout the US government.)

… Trump's exec order on mail-in voting, and potential use of the Postal Service as a weapon of subversion;

(Trump has tried to seize control over mail-in voting from states in some key ways, including by creating a national database of voter registrations. States on the right and left have fought the effort, however, and a court this month rejected his attempt to order the US Postal Service to only send mail-in ballots in states that had complied. The court battle will continue on multiple fronts before Election Day.)

… his pathological prioritization of the SAVE act, which would be the most powerful voter suppression tool in generations;

(Trump has loudly complained about Republicans' inability to pass an election security bill that voter integrity groups largely say is unnecessary. He has demanded that senators nix he filibuster to pass the bill, but Republican senators have refused. This week Trump refused to sign a bipartisan housing bill out of pique at lawmakers' failure to pass the election bill, which he calls the SAVE America Act. The election bill will continue to languish and the housing bill will become law without his signature.)

… and his persistent, unfounded claims of election fraud, which he uses to justify extraordinary federal interventions.

(There is no evidence of widespread election fraud, but there is indeed fear that Trump will use claims of fraud, perhaps aerated by Pulte at DNI, to do something extraordinary before November. Mullin was asked at his confirmation hearing about the possibility of dispatching ICE agents to polling places and did not reject it out of hand. But there is no publicly reported concrete plan to do anything like this.)

Attendees hold signs during a rally against the SAVE America Act at a rally outside the US Capitol on March 18, 2026. - Heather Diehl/Getty Images

There are other things Axelrod did not mention

Last year, CNN reported about how the Trump administration, as part of supposed government efficiency efforts, had worked to starve or dismantle election security networks by which the federal government helps states.

This latest effort — firing commissioners at the EAC — likely won't have much of an impact on the coming election, according to watchdog and good government groups. But it is alarming to some of them nonetheless.

Warnings of a slow-moving takeover

"Although the EAC doesn't play a direct role in running elections, we must view this as part of a broader pattern of efforts to centralize control over election administration and tilt the playing field," wrote Michael McNulty, director of policy at Issue One, which describes itself as a "crosspartisan political reform group."

McNulty, whose background is in working in elections overseas, has warned that Trump's efforts amount to a slow-moving election takeover playbook about which everyone should be on guard.

Trump's efforts to exert influence of the coming election have been clear, but they have also been faulty. The Supreme Court recently ruled in favor of states that count mail-in ballots postmarked on time but received after Election Day, for instance, the most high-profile election-related loss for Trump and his allies in court.

There have been multiple other obstacles put in front of Trump by lower courts.

States are taking matters into their own hands

CNN's Fredreka Schouten recently wrote about efforts in blue states to pass laws shielding their elections from federal meddling, either by barring the sharing of voter registration data or barring the presence of federal law enforcement.

Votes will be cast. Votes will be counted

For all of Trump's efforts, Americans should be confident that the coming election will be sound, according to David Becker, founder of the Center for Election Innovation and Research.

By that he means that people will be able to vote and those votes will be counted accurately.

"I'm not even sure the dismissals rank in the top 5 election-related stories this week," he said of the EAC firings. "A Trump-appointed judge quashing the DOJ's subpoena attempting to collect sensitive personal information on poll workers was far more impactful, for instance."

The EAC firings, Becker wrote, are indeed overreach, but "we shouldn't make too much about the effect this will have on the elections, this year and going forward."

Elections are still run by states, as the Constitution requires, he argued, "and they are executing that mission exceptionally well."

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[Update]:
Another voice accuses Donald Dumb of preparing a "deliberate plan" to force the midterms elections in favor of his submissive spineless MAGA subordinate candidates. That is what former White House attorney Ty Cobb said about President Trump's decision to fire the members of the independent Election Assistance Commission (EAC) this week.

"You can't look at the termination of the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) as anything other than another effort by one side to try to take over part of the referee role for the elections," Cobb said in an interview on MS NOW.

Complicit in this attack on voting rights, the MAGA-affiliated and biased Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision that the president has the right to fire the heads of independent agencies without referring to Congress as has been the precedent over the past century.

The EAC was created in 2002 as an independent board that provides funds, training and assistance to state election officials as they manage federal elections. One of its most important tasks is to encourage and facilitate voter participation.

Voting rights groups are accusing Donald Dumb of preparing to interfere with future elections and bias them in his favor in 2028 as well as to favor those MAGA candidates in the upcoming November midterms. "All the signals are flashing red, the latest being @POTUS's summary dismissal of the remaining Federal Election Assistance Commission members," Democratic strategist David Axelrod warned.

Whenever elections go his way, dumbass Trump doesn't complain. But when they go against him, he claims fraud without a shred of evidence. Now that the prospects of his MAGA minions are dim ahead of the midterms, he is flailing about, making unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud (even though he is in charge), and demanding the "nationalization" or "federalization" of elections, which is against established conservative dogma of keeping the federal government out of the business of the States. 

For example, he wants mail-in-voting eliminated (even though he himself has already voted by mail); he is demanding that States give him their lists of registered voters (which he can use to have ICE scare off or harass voters with Hispanic or non-Anglo-Saxon names, including preventing them from reaching the polling stations); he also wants voters to show proof of citizenship when voting. Since there are no ID cards in the US (Republicans have always been against the federal government issuing ID cards), people usually rely on their driver's licenses to prove identity, but Driver's Licenses are not proof of citizenship. Most Americans do not carry around passports or birth certificates or such forms proving citizenship that are typically difficult and complicated to obtain. 

The bottom line is that Trump is fighting to prevent poor, illiterate, working Americans (minorities, immigrants, etc. who usually find it difficult to obtain such documents) form voting because he knows they don't vote republican.

District courts have already dismissed several lawsuits by Trump demanding State voter data from mostly Democrat-led states in a blatant partisan attempt to interfere in the elections.


"[Trump's] forces are already on the field," Ty Cobb said. "I don't think we can be sanguine about the elections because [Trump] is stacking every card in the deck that he can get his hands on."