"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."
Republicans are reacting to recent electoral losses by pursuing broad changes to voting processes and institutions. Donald Trump and allies are challenging the legitimacy of potential Republican defeats and arguing that electoral systems justify radical reforms. Confidants have floated emergency powers and extraordinary interventions, including deploying federal agents and military personnel near polling places. Steve Bannon has urged preemptive action to secure electoral outcomes before votes are cast, saying intimidation is acceptable. The administration is also pressuring Republican-controlled states to redraw congressional maps off cycle to lock in additional safe GOP seats, with Texas and Ohio already adding seats.
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