(AURN News) — “I’d love to stop mail-in ballots.” That’s President Donald Trump speaking to The New York Times, and it wasn’t the only thing he said in the interview that set off alarms.
In the same interview, Trump said he should have ordered the National Guard to seize ballot boxes during the 2020 election. He did not question whether that would be legal, but whether the Guard was sophisticated enough to do so.
The president has no authority to seize ballots or voting machines. Elections are run by the states, and Congress sets the rules. That is why a draft executive order floated in December 2020 to confiscate voting equipment was never issued.
Trump and his allies later admitted their allegations were not factual.
Pressed on whether he would accept the 2026 midterm results if Democrats win, the president suggested he would not, repeating familiar attacks on mail voting and demanding same-day elections and voter ID.
Click play to listen to the report from AURN White House Correspondent Ebony McMorris. For more news, follow @E_N_McMorris & @aurnonline.
