Thus far, the U.S. mid-term election year of 2026 is defined by two competing trends: Trump’s stochastic attacks against the election process itself vs. a surging Democratic party on a special election win streak. Trump Muses About Nationalizing Elections Last week POTUS Trump guested on Dan Bongino’s podcast and said something about “we ought to nationalize the voting” that got quite a bit of attention, helping Bongino to draw 3.3 million viewers on Rumble. Bongino, returning to podcastland after his tenure as Deputy Director of the FBI ended in December , got Trump talking about elections: President Donald Trump : I won in a landslide. I won every swing state. I won the popular vote by millions. I won everything. I won a thing called counties, the counties that were, it’s such a big vote. That’s why the map was entirely red when you looked, it had two little purple lines or two blue lines on each side, but it was all red. And counties I won by 2,750, think of this, to 550, 2,750 to 550. It’s becoming a very good count because it’s accurate. You know, it covers the whole country. It’s like a landslide. But you’re never go
