With Republicans facing grim poll figures, Trump promised action to influence the vote citing debunked fraud claims
Donald Trump once again railed against imagined fraud in America’s elections on Tuesday during the State of the Union address.
“They want to cheat,” he said of Democrats. “They have cheated. And their policy is so bad that their only way to get elected is to cheat. And we’re going to stop it.”
Trump has put action to his long-debunked claims this year, with FBI agents seizing 2020 election documentation in Fulton county, Georgia, and the Department of Justice pursuing voter data from state elections officials across the country.
The incumbent party usually faces losses in midterm elections. Since the second world war, the president’s party has lost an average of 26 seats in the House, and an average of four seats in the Senate. Those results in 2026 would flip both chambers.
