Trump moves to use the levers of presidential power to help his party in the 2026 midterms
President Donald Trump has made it clear that his party is willing to use the wide powers of his office to prevent his party from losing the control of the Congress next year.
Some of Trump’s steps to intervene in the election are typical, but controversial, political maneuvers are taken to extreme brands of brand. Including Forcing Republican MPs in Texas And other conservative states, to redress the legislative maps to expand the number of US home seats that are suitable for GOP.
Others include direct use of the official presidential power in non -modern ways such as ordering the Ministry of Justice. To investigate the main liberal donation collection organizationActblue. In the department Request detailed voter files In a prominent attempt to search for inappropriate voters on a large scale from each state.
And on Monday, Trump is a Family Rent On social media, he promised to direct voting machines and postal voting, and the second became the basis of the democratic vote. Translation of the problem Before the presidential elections of last year.
Individual actions make an unprecedented attempt to intervene in a critical election, even the movements of the chairman of the residence, who are concerned about the future of US democracy.
“These are the actions you have not seen in healthy democracies, Ian General Manager of Democracy, a non -Partizan organization that sued the Trump administration. “These are the actions you see in authoritarian states.”
Trump has already tried to overthrow a choice
Bassin said that the presidents were trying to support the officials by directing the routine and the projects for their parties in the midterm elections. However, Trump’s history is a part of the alarm about midterm exams.
Referring to Trump Tops of overthrow consequences 2020 Presidential Electionending with A violent attack In Capitol by supporters.
“The only thing we know from experience in 2020 is a person who will use every precaution and try to stay in power, regardless of the outcome of an election,” he said.
In 2020, Trump said that he was controlled by the members of his administration and the republicans elected in the Congress and State Houses, who refused to bend the rules with the members of his administration and even the military leaders who were defeated. During the second period, the President locked the total loyalty from the GOP and stacked the administration with loyalty.
The Presidential Party normally loses a seat in the Congress during midterm exams. In 2018, Trump won enough chairs to reclaim the House of Representatives of the Democrats, stopping the agenda of the president and eventually led to two charges.
Trump said he didn’t want it again.
He also argued that his actions were actually attempts to protect democracy. In a meeting with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday, which repeated the fundamental claims of fraud, he said, “You will never have a real democracy with the post -mail compasses.” At the beginning of this month, Trump said that he won Texas in the 2024 Presidential elections and said, “We have five more seats.”
The GOP control of the US house is an engineering trial
Republicans are currently a three -person margin in the House of Representatives. Trump has pushed the Congress maps to redemine the Congress maps to create a newly acquired GOP chair to five newly acquired GOP chairs, and tends to take similar steps to fill other red states, including Indiana and Missouri.
The Texas Legislative Assembly will vote for the map on Wednesday. There is There is no guarantee that Trump’s gambit will workAt the same time, a legal prohibition against dealing with maps in these states for the advantage of Partisan. In response, California Democrats OWN Reduction Efforts As a way of resisting the Republicans in Texas.
Mid -ten years map adjustments have been made before, but in response to court decisions, hoping to produce more seats for their parties, not usually from the presidents. Larry Diamond, a political scientist from Stanford University, said that as Trump predicted, the re -scratching of home areas is the chance to succeed, but he could motivate democratic voters.
Still, Diamond said he was worried. Trump’s tactic, “worrying general model, and the reason for doing it for the pure partisan advantage,” he said.
In 2019, Diamond wrote a book about a “12 -stage öyleme process to turn a democracy into an autocracy, and the last step of the process is to publish the election process”.
The Ministry of Justice is moving on Trump’s priorities
Trump required loyalty from all levels of his administration and asked the Ministry of Justice to follow the directives. One of them was to question Actblue, which has collected hundreds of millions of dollars in minor dollars of small dollars for democratic candidates for more than twenty years.
The site was so successful that the Republicans launched a similar initiative called Winred. In particular, Trump did not order a federal investigation to Winred.
Trump’s appointments at the Ministry of Justice He asked for votes While at least 19 states continued to insist that Trump won the 2020 elections, a special prosecutor proposed to investigate that year’s vote. As he did before winning the 2024 election, Trump Implicated implied That democrats can create counts of votes approaching against him.
According to letters shared with the Associated Press, at least two of these states, California and Minnesota, DEJ followed the election officials last week and threatened the legal process if they did not deliver the voter registration lists this Thursday. Both states, both controlled by the Democrats, did not respond to the public.
Voting and attempts to intervene in elections
The threat of Trump to terminate the postal vote this week and eliminate voting machines, attempt to end how the elections were carried out. One executive order He signed earlier this year, in addition to other changes, he sought documented citizenship proof to vote, but most courts were blocked by the courts.
Until January 6, 2021, Attack on Capitol Trump’s allies to reverse the loss of 2020 Attorney General He said there was no evidence of a significant mistake.
The Constitution says that states and Congress sets the election rules instead of the President, so it is unclear what Trump can do to turn his promises into reality. However, the election officials saw them as a obvious sign of interest in 2026.
“Let’s see this because of what is actually: attempting to take midterm exams, because he is afraid that Republicans will lose,” the Wisconsin Election Commission Democratic President Ann Jacobs said.
The president has very few branches to affect a choice
Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, said that the idea of seizing voting machines in 2020 was a sign of how little ways he should affect a choice, not the power of the president. In accordance with the US Constitution, elections are carried out by states and only “change” the congress procedures – and even then for federal breeds.
“This is a deep decentralized system, Mul Muller said.
Muller said that there is less legal restriction, such as criminal investigations and deployment of law enforcement officers and military resources on presidential powers. However, people often make mistakes in predicting election disasters.
In 2022 and 2024, violence, deterioration and attempts to disrupt the losses of the allies of Trump said that there were not serious threats and serious threats.
Muller, a lesson that I have learned for decades of what has done this, people are preparing for the last election rather than what is actually in new ones, ”he said.
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