{"id":65566,"date":"2026-02-06T00:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/grind-the-country-to-a-halt-democrat-urges-national-strike-if-trump-meddles-in-midterms\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T00:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:55:08","slug":"grind-the-country-to-a-halt-democrat-urges-national-strike-if-trump-meddles-in-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/grind-the-country-to-a-halt-democrat-urges-national-strike-if-trump-meddles-in-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Grind the country to a halt\u2019: Democrat urges national strike if Trump meddles in midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In wake of Donald Trump\u2019s call for Republicans to \u2018take over\u2019 voting, senator Ruben Gallego urges citizens to take a stand and give the \u2018ultimate response\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic senator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/article\/2024\/may\/03\/ruben-gallego-arizona-senate-race\">Ruben Gallego<\/a> has proposed that, should Donald Trump try to sabotage the midterm elections, Americans should respond with a general strike that would \u201cgrind the country to a halt\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week the US president called for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/03\/trump-republicans-nationalize-elections-midterms\">Republicans to \u201ctake over\u201d and \u201cnationalise\u201d voting<\/a> in at least 15 unspecified locations, repeating his false claims that elections are plagued by widespread fraud.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/06\/donald-trump-voting-midterms-democrat-national-strike\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In wake of Donald Trump\u2019s call for Republicans to \u2018take over\u2019 voting, senator Ruben Gallego urges citizens to take a stand and give the \u2018ultimate response\u2019 The Democratic senator Ruben Gallego has proposed that, should Donald Trump try to sabotage the midterm elections, Americans should respond with a general strike that would \u201cgrind the country &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Grind the country to a halt\u2019: Democrat urges national strike if Trump meddles in midterms\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/grind-the-country-to-a-halt-democrat-urges-national-strike-if-trump-meddles-in-midterms\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Grind the country to a halt\u2019: Democrat urges national strike if Trump meddles in midterms\">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-65566","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\/65566","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=65566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}