{"id":67295,"date":"2026-02-25T11:55:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T16:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/state-of-the-union-five-ways-trump-could-try-to-tilt-the-midterms-in-his-favor\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T11:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T16:55:17","slug":"state-of-the-union-five-ways-trump-could-try-to-tilt-the-midterms-in-his-favor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/state-of-the-union-five-ways-trump-could-try-to-tilt-the-midterms-in-his-favor\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the Union: five ways Trump could try to tilt the midterms in his favor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Republicans facing grim poll figures, Trump promised action to influence the vote citing debunked fraud claims<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump once again railed against imagined fraud in America\u2019s elections on Tuesday during the State of the Union address.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey want to cheat,\u201d he said of Democrats. \u201cThey have cheated. And their policy is so bad that their only way to get elected is to cheat. And we\u2019re going to stop it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/25\/trump-midterm-elections-voting-influence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Republicans facing grim poll figures, Trump promised action to influence the vote citing debunked fraud claims Donald Trump once again railed against imagined fraud in America\u2019s elections on Tuesday during the State of the Union address. \u201cThey want to cheat,\u201d he said of Democrats. \u201cThey have cheated. And their policy is so bad that &#8230; <a title=\"State of the Union: five ways Trump could try to tilt the midterms in his favor\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/state-of-the-union-five-ways-trump-could-try-to-tilt-the-midterms-in-his-favor\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about State of the Union: five ways Trump could try to tilt the midterms in his favor\">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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67295","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=67295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}