When the Department of Justice raided the election offices in Fulton County, Georgia , to seize ballots, tabulations and other materials related to the 2020 election on Jan. 28, it signaled a new phase in President Donald Trump’s efforts to prove his conspiracy theory about election fraud. It also raised a new fear that this president, who already tried to steal one election, may be setting the stage to try to steal another. That raid wasn’t just about settling Trump’s old scores, but it also looked like “a test run for messing with election administrators and the counting of ballots in the midterm elections in 2026,” Richard Hasen, an election expert at UCLA Law School, wrote in Slate in January. Politics: Watch Trump React To Hearing Former Press Secretary Got Kicked Out Of Arkansas Restaurant Since entering politics in 2015, Trump has claimed, falsely, that every election he has taken part in was marred by fraud. In his second term in office, he has moved to weaponize the federal government against this imaginary fraud by seeking to restrict voting and seize control of the electoral process from the states. This has led to mounting fears that he will seek to interfere in the 202
