Trump openly calls on states to rig the system to help him steal elections
Following the recent Supreme Court ruling that drastically altered the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Donald Trump is playing his “never let a crisis go to waste” card by openly calling on red state legislatures to rig the voting system to help him steal elections and establish Republican majorities into the foreseeable future.
Donald Trump has made a second career out of his claims of “rigged” elections ever since he rode down the golden escalator in 2015, but now it’s apparently not a problem since he can rig the system to help Republicans “win elections.” From nixing the Senate filibuster, to requiring voter ID and proof of citizenship, to eliminating mail ballots, Trump hasn’t lacked for subtle ways on how he might accomplish this, but his political strategies are becoming less subtle as the midterms draw near (via CNN):
Trump’s latest missive came on Sunday, after the Supreme Court ruled last week that Louisiana’s congressional map is an unconstitutional gerrymander and further chipped away at the Voting Rights Act, potentially allowing Republicans to redraw maps in the South a lot more favorably for them. That could tilt the US House map toward the GOP for years to come.
Trump urged his side to act post-haste. He called on states — even those that have already begun voting — to quickly change their maps for the 2026 election to supposedly comply with the Supreme Court ruling.
“That is more important than administrative convenience,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “The byproduct is that the Republicans will receive more than 20 House Seats in the upcoming Midterms!”
The first thing to note is that what he’s pitching was not demanded by the Supreme Court. While its ruling further diminished the Voting Rights Act, it applies only to Louisiana’s map. It will take time to figure out how it might apply to other states. And it’s not at all clear how it would be legal for states to invalidate votes that have already been cast. (Emphasis mine)
As mentioned above, Trump has made numerous attempts to rig the elections in his favor using other methods. For example, a few months ago (February 2026) he confirmed his intention to nationalize elections after the FBI had seized Fulton County, Georgia, voting records. In a radio interview on The Dan Bongino Show following the seizure, Trump called voting in America “corrupt,” claimed that previous elections had been stolen from him, and, using words that would make Joseph Stalin proud, concluded that Republicans should take over how ballots are cast and counted:
“These people (illegal immigrants) were brought to our country to vote and they vote illegally. Amazing that the Republicans aren’t tougher on it.
“The Republicans should say, we want to take over. We should take over the voting, the voting in at least many, 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting.” (Emphasis mine)
Blaming illegal immigrants for stealing elections was no coincidence. The day following Trump’s declaration on Bongino’s show, Steve Bannon said on his War Room podcast that ICE agents would be dispatched to select polling stations to prevent future elections from being stolen (via Democracy Docket):
“We’re going to have ICE surround the polls come November,” Bannon, a former senior advisor to President Donald Trump and still a figure of influence in the administration, said on Tuesday’s episode of his War Room podcast addressing Democrats. “We’re not going to sit here and allow you to steal the country again. And you can whine and cry and throw your toys out of the pram all you want, but we will never again allow an election to be stolen.” (Emphasis mine)
Another method for rigging elections in his favor and that of his army of Trumpist Republicans is the SAVE America Act. Considered a top priority of Speaker Mike Johnson and Donald Trump, the SAVE Act would require in-person proof of citizenship — such as a U.S. passport or a combination of a driver’s license and birth certificate — to register to vote. Designed to allegedly restore integrity to our elections by preventing non-citizens from voting — which is already illegal — the SAVE America Act would likely disenfranchise voters who, coincidentally, don’t usually vote Republican.
One of the most notable and obvious proofs that Trump wants full control of elections can be seen in his earlier attempts of stacking the deck in his favor ahead of the 2026 election when he convinced Texas Republicans — and several other states — to redraw congressional districts to secure Republican power in Washington and deny voters from the “other side” of the aisle the right to choose their representatives.
After the Texas map passed, he told Republicans that if they gerrymandered more GOP-leaning seats in other states and eliminated mail-in voting and paper ballots, it would erase Democrats’ chances. “If we do these TWO things, we will pick up 100 more seats, and the CROOKED game of politics is over,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
As these and other examples prove conclusively, Trump’s is pushing a brand of tyranny that has replaced liberty ever since 9/11 (via John Whitehead op-ed featured in Eurasia Review)
The bipartisan police-state architecture that began with 9/11 has been passed from president to president and party to party, each recycling the same justifications—safety, security, patriotism—to expand its powers at the expense of the citizenry.
People who once spoke passionately about truth, freedom, and faith have now fallen silent in the face of injustice, or worse, convinced themselves that nothing is wrong. The very voices that should be warning against tyranny are instead excusing it or looking away.
This is the danger of double standards in politics: every tyranny is rationalized in the moment by its chorus of defenders. Time and again, the lies we tell ourselves make it possible. The cult of personality. The blind loyalty to party. The belief that “our side” can’t be the villain.
After 9/11, Americans were told the Patriot Act and mass surveillance were “necessary to prevent terrorism.” The result was a sprawling security state that tracks every phone call, every online search, every purchase. The justification was security. The cost was freedom. (Emphasis mine)
As I have documented in The New Axis of Evil: Exposing the Bipartisan War on Liberty, Republicans and Democrats are always working on new ways to destroy liberty in America, and Donald Trump’s goal of rigging elections is no exception.
When it comes to his tyrannical plans to nationalize and seize control of elections, Trump has demonstrated that he will go to any lengths to get the job done, including forcing states to rig the election system in his favor to create Republican majorities in Congress for years to come.
David Leach is the owner of the Strident Conservative and the author of The New Axis of Evil: Exposing the Bipartisan War on Liberty. He holds people of every political stripe accountable for their failure to uphold conservative values, and he promotes those values instead of political parties.
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