"Many of them are people I have known to be cautious, sober, and not prone to hyperbole. Yet they used words like nightmare and warned that Americans need to be ready for 'really wild stuff.' They described a system under attack and reaching a breaking point. They enumerated a long list of concerns about next year's midterms, but they largely declined to make predictions about the 2028 presidential election."
"The speed of Trump's assault on the Constitution has made forecasting difficult, but the 2026 contests-both the way they work, and the results-will help determine whether democracy as we know it will survive until then. 'If you are not frightened,' Hannah Fried, the executive director of the voter-access group All Voting Is Local, told me, 'you are not paying attention.'"
President Donald Trump and his allies have executed and planned measures to undermine election integrity and public trust ahead of the 2026 midterms. Since 2016, Trump has promoted distrust in elections through false claims—such as suggesting millions of unauthorized immigrants are voting—and efforts to delegitimize voting by mail. Legal, election-administration, and law-enforcement experts warn these tactics create pretexts for contesting results and could produce systemic chaos. The administration has amassed expanded powers, and some argue Trump intends to retain or expand authority even at the cost of constitutional norms. Observers describe a system under attack reaching a breaking point and urge preparedness.
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