{"id":65322,"date":"2026-02-03T21:58:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/trump-news-at-a-glance-democrats-sound-alarm-after-president-mulls-election-takeover\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T21:58:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:58:26","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-democrats-sound-alarm-after-president-mulls-election-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/trump-news-at-a-glance-democrats-sound-alarm-after-president-mulls-election-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: Democrats sound alarm after president mulls election takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump\u2019s comments raise concerns about potential efforts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/nov\/09\/trump-midterm-elections-voting-system\">rig the November midterm elections<\/a> \u2013 key US politics stories from Tuesday 3 February at a glance<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> suggested on a conservative podcast released on Monday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/republicans\">Republican<\/a> state officials \u201ctake over\u201d and \u201cnationalize\u201d elections in 15 states to protect the party from being voted out of office.<\/p>\n<p>Trump framed the issue as a means to prevent undocumented immigrants from voting. Claims that noncitizens are voting in numbers that can affect an election <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/blog\/noncitizens-dont-illegally-vote-detectable-numbers\">are a lie<\/a>. But it raises concerns about potential efforts by the president to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/nov\/09\/trump-midterm-elections-voting-system\">rig the November midterm elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/03\/trump-news-at-a-glance-latest\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump\u2019s comments raise concerns about potential efforts to rig the November midterm elections \u2013 key US politics stories from Tuesday 3 February at a glance Donald Trump suggested on a conservative podcast released on Monday that Republican state officials \u201ctake over\u201d and \u201cnationalize\u201d elections in 15 states to protect the party from being voted out &#8230; <a title=\"Trump news at a glance: Democrats sound alarm after president mulls election takeover\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/trump-news-at-a-glance-democrats-sound-alarm-after-president-mulls-election-takeover\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump news at a glance: Democrats sound alarm after president mulls election takeover\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}