Some supporters of President Donald Trump are urging him to take control of elections or even declare martial law if they believe the 2026 midterm elections could be affected by fraud.
We don’t have a lot of time to fix this. Peters, sentenced to nearly nine years in prison in 2024, said MAGA supporters are frustrated: “They can’t trust elections- they’ve seen too much…
Attorney Peter Ticktin, who went to military school with Trump as a teenager, is among the outside advisors urging him to seize control of federal elections this fall, according to The Atlantic . Her message to the president: “Listen to the people outside of the administration.”
It is not a blank check.” The third is that Trump declares martial law around November 3. Because he claims, without evidence, that Democrats already cheated in the primaries, he does not believe there will be a smooth election.
Ticktin sees three possible outcomes for the elections this November, according to The Atlantic. The second possibility, according to him, is that Trump takes action before the election to prevent cheating. “Either martial law, or step aside,” Ticktin said about Trump’s choices in that situation. When asked if he was worried about riots if Trump tried to overturn the election results, he said he was not concerned. “Believe me, our armed forces are a lot bigger than they are,” he said. At a Las Vegas event, Ticktin also said he feared electronic voting equipment could shift votes from Republican candidates to Democrats. He said this could give Democrats control of Congress and allow them to impeach Trump and Vice President Vance . “There’s not another soul on this planet that understands what it is to be the president of the United States and have to leave office for a rigged election so someone else can step in and steal the country,” he said. Root said the election could be overturned if Trump declares a national emergency, but experts disagree. Elizabeth Goitein of the Brennan Center said, “There seems to be a wild misperception on the part of some Trump allies that an emergency declaration allows the president to do anything he wants.
