Miles Parks

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The NPR Politics Podcast · What happens if Trump tries to mess with the midterms? · 28 Aug 2026 podcast

It's kind of been a little bit of a spaghetti at the wall approach from the federal government and from President Trump when it comes to trying to impact the elections infrastructure.

President Trump has made it clear he thinks that the presidency and that he as president should have a bigger hand in how elections are run.

That has meant two different executive orders on elections, the one we mentioned a second ago and then another one last year.

Both of those have been blocked.

So far at the courts.

And then it's really kind of funneled out to a lot of different aspects of the federal government, notably the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security have both made efforts to try to investigate the 2020 election and investigate voter fraud more broadly in all of these different ways, which has raised a lot of concerns about what potentially could still be coming for this election cycle.

Though I will just say I think going back to

the bottom line as people are getting ready to vote this cycle, it looks right now like the elections infrastructure is gonna be the same as it was in twenty twenty four and twenty twenty two.

I'm not positive that any voters are gonna really notice a difference when they go to vote this cycle at this point.

think when it comes to thinking

Thinking about the possibility of another January 6th, right?

It's also important to remember that we're just in a very different political moment, at least from the people I talk to, there's a lot of optimism that that is not what we're looking at here.

Obviously, the scenarios, the sort of doomscaping scenarios that have been brought up because of all the different ways President Trump has pushed these boundaries are real.

But at the same time, a couple things I would note.

One is that it's a lot harder to get

Get people keyed up in the same way they were in 2020 for a midterm election.

We see this for no other reason than just turnout.

Getting people to vote in midterm elections is so much harder.

We've never been able to see somebody on the ballot get this sort of election denial fervor in the way Trump was able to.

I mean, we saw this in 2022 when Kerry Lake ran for governor in Arizona, tried to stir the same sort of doubts about when she lost that election.

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