Trump's assault on voting intensifies as midterms loom: 'a wholesale attack on free and fair elections'

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Source: The Guardian

Sun 9 Nov 2025 07.00 EST
Last modified on Sun 9 Nov 2025 17.45 EST


A year out from the 2026 midterms, with Republicans feeling the blows from a string of losses in this week’s elections, Donald Trump and his allies are mounting a multipronged attack on almost every aspect of voting in the United States and raising what experts say are troubling questions about the future of one of the world’s oldest democracies.

While Democratic leaders continue to invest their hopes in a “blue wave” to overturn Republican majorities in the House and Senate next year, Trump and some prominent supporters have sought to discredit the possibility that Republicans could lose in a fair fight and are using that premise to justify demands for a drastically different kind of electoral system.

This is not the first time Trump has questioned the credibility of US elections – he did it almost as vigorously in 2016 and 2024, when he won his bids for the White House, as he did in 2020, when he did not – but now the president’s confidants are threatening emergency powers to seize control of a process over which presidents ordinarily have no control.

Trump’s former chief political adviser, Steve Bannon, is urging him to get the elections “squared away” even before the voters have a chance to weigh in. Former legal advisers have suggested the electoral system is in itself an emergency justifying extraordinary intervention, possibly including federal agents and the military stationed outside polling stations. When Bannon was asked whether voters might find this intimidating, he replied: “You’re damn right.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/09/trump-midterm-elections-voting-system

[rampartd]

1. if we are allowed to vote in 2026 i will count it as positive

then all we need to do is make sure our people get ids, show up in droves, protect voters from intimidation, and make sure the votes are counted, and force the speaker to swear in new democrats.

and do it with no money or help from state or federal authority. small price for freedom.

[NotHardly]

9. That has worked so well lately :/

[Ponietz]

2. But 8 Democratic Senators decided to work with them

They double down every fucking time we roll over. Just pathetic.

[Irish_Dem]

3. After the recent Dem win, MAGA knows they have to cheat more next time.

They cannot destroy the US and still win honestly.

[Bayard]

5. I wonder if Musk left his vote flipping software in place....

[Irish_Dem]

6. Did Musk get new federal contracts? If so, the answer is YES.

[NotHardly]

10. Wait and watch honey, wait and watch.

[Irish_Dem]

12. It is going to be epic isn't it?

And no one will give a damn.

[J_William_Ryan]

4. And it's not just Trump.

Republicans at the state level are doing everything possible to undermine the democratic process and disenfranchise voters – including discriminatory gerrymandering, closing voting venues in communities of color, and draconian registration requirements.

[Cirsium]

7. But, but, but

We have been lectured here many times that the states control elections and that there is nothing Trump can do to interfere.

[durablend]

11. "Trump is not omnipotent" or something like that....

[Cirsium]

13. Exactly

He will be omnipotent if we keep caving.

[NotHardly]

14. No worries, Dems will fold again, as usual.

[CarolinaNC]

15. nc here! we already don't have fair elections here!

[bluestarone]

16. I'm pretty sure their plan is to do anything so that

The Supreme court needs to get involved. (kinda like they did in Florida) Then LOOK OUT is all i can say.