The comments, made on a conservative podcast, follow a string of moves from his administration to try to exert more control over American elections.

Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, was on site in Fulton County, Ga., last week when the F.B.I. conducted an extraordinary search of an election center, seizing truckloads of 2020 ballots.

President Donald Trump took damage control to a disturbing new level Sunday in claiming near ignorance about the loss by Republican Leigh Wambsganss in a Texas state Senate election. On Truth Social Saturday,