Donald Trump, elections
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Donald Trump said he will only accept the GOP losing control of Congress in this November’s midterms if he considers the elections to have been “honest.” Speaking to NBC’s Tom Llamas, the 79-year-old president was pressed on whether he would trust the midterm results after his suggestion that Republicans should “nationalize” election races across the country.
State and local officials are weighing in after President Trump doubled down on comments this week that the federal government should take over federal elections in several Democratic-led cities, including Detroit.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard arranged for agents who searched a Georgia election site last week to have a phone call with President Trump, sources say.
Officials in Georgia’s Fulton County have asked a federal court to order the FBI to return ballots and other documents from the 2020 election that it seized last week, The move escalates a voting batt
California officials say they are ready to resist should the federal government attempt to assert control over the state's voting system, as President Trump has suggested it should.
President Donald Trump suggested the federal government should take a direct role in administering elections in Michigan, claiming without evidence that local election systems are corrupt and poorly run.
Trump repeated without evidence his long-running claim that U.S. elections are beset by widespread fraud.
President Donald Trump has promoted dozens of different lies about American elections. Some of them are relatively sophisticated. Some are transparently silly.