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Senator Mark Warner told Rachel Maddow on MS Now that he is terrified at the prospect of Trump interfering with the Midterm Elections. Perhaps not so much because he might get away with it, but more so the irreparable damage it would cause to our belief that every vote counts.
Senator Warner voiced a dire warning in the >New York Times that Trump is trying to override our elections. The Washington Post reported that a draft Executive Order being circulated claiming that there is currently a national emergency due to foreign election interference.
“There is now clear and compelling evidence from court cases and forensic analysis that these threats have not been mitigated but instead have intensified,” reads the proposed draft, dated April 2025. “This constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.”
“We’ve been raising the alarm for weeks about President Trump’s attacks on our elections and now we’re seeing reports that outline how they may be planning to do it,” Warner said in a statement in response to the Washington Post's article. “This is a plot to interfere with the will of voters and undermine both the rule of law and public confidence in our elections.”
We still have questions about Trump’s new executive order on elections. A national voter list is illegal, inherently flawed, and unworkable, but perhaps that is on purpose. Trump has demonstrated time after time that he thrives in chaos. Since he failed to force the Save Act through Congress perhaps this is manufactured national emergency that Trump feels could warrant invalidating the Midterms and nationalize voting.
