Democrats Expect a 2026 Comeback. But Will Free Elections Even Exist?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : He has backed the SAVE Act, congressional legislation that purports to crack down on noncitizen voting, an infinitesimal problem, by requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration -- something that would likely disenfranchise millions of legitimately eligible college students, as well as Black and Latino voters.
50% : "At some point Trump said he would be considering a third term, and I think that captured the public's attention.
49% : Trump is already putting some of the building blocks in place.
45% : He tried to pressure California into requiring voter ID in exchange for federal wildfire aid money.
42% : He has nominated Harmeet Dhillon, a lawyer who helped Trump try to overturn the 2020 election results, as an assistant attorney general.
33% : Which is frightening, because that thinking naively assumes Trump doesn't try to change the election rules.
32% : One locus of the counterattack is Democracy Docket, a voting rights platform launched by Marc Elias, an election lawyer who worked with the presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, and who in 2020 went undefeated in 64 cases where Trump tried to contest the presidential outcome.
26% : President Donald Trump and his allies are doing plenty of damage right now -- from firing hundreds of air traffic control staffers to pushing an obscene federal budget bill that slashes Medicaid while expanding tax breaks for the wealthy.
26% : "Trump and the Republican Congress changing the mechanics of voting and the certification of elections -- it's more than me making an educated guess," says Bill Burton, a Democratic strategist who was a White House adviser to President Barack Obama.

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