With Trump’s help, Republicans across the country are sowing doubt about next year’s congressional elections—and gearing up for 2028.
Special elections in Florida and Wisconsin have suggested that voters are already fed up with the Trump administration and point to the possibility that the 2026 midterms could be a blue wave. As Trump’s failures continue to mount, Republicans have good reason to fear a backlash.
Perhaps this explains why Trump is intent on bolstering the election denial movement, which has lately notched a number of key victories. On March 25, the president signed Executive Order #14248, “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections,” which neither preserves nor protects our elections but rather undermines them.
It is a clarion call to Republicans throughout the nation, who are being encouraged to question the legitimacy of any election loss and ultimately establish a permanent electoral advantage by challenging and removing eligible voters from the rolls. Now, with Trump’s executive order, they have insurance: a way of tipping elections in their favor by choosing the voters rather than having the voters choose them.
If they let us vote again then we might as well do it, but at the rate things are going they might just rig the election if they don’t cancel it.
Or use it to keep track of who isn’t supporting the new regime and come after you. I’ve always been very pro-voting but it doesn’t feel safe to be voting anymore and I’m not going to risk my safety for a rigged election