Speaking at the Oval Office on Feb. 3, Trump suggested federal agents could count votes and run elections instead of state election officials.

City and county officials in Atlanta, Detroit and Philadelphia spoke out about Trump's criticizing their handling of elections and suggesting the federal government should step in.

Secretary of State Bill Galvin told MassLive he's "extremely concerned" about what the president is planning for the 2026 midterms and beyond.

Donald Trump said he will only accept the GOP losing control of Congress in this November’s midterms if he considers the elections to have been “honest.” Speaking to NBC’s Tom Llamas, the 79-year-old president was pressed on whether he would trust the midterm results after his suggestion that Republicans should “nationalize” election races across the country.

He listed Atlanta, Detroit and Philadelphia after making unfounded fraud claims.

When President Donald Trump claimed to NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Llamas in a Wednesday interview that “I’m getting – starting to get great polls on the economy,” Llamas quickly pushed back by noting that Trump’s polling on the economy is “not great.

On Tuesday, Trump, 79, doubled down on comments he made during a podcast interview with Dan Bongino, his former FBI deputy director, in which he argued that Republicans should “nationalize” elections by taking over the way ballots are cast and counted.

Officials in Georgia’s Fulton County have asked a federal court to order the FBI to return ballots and other documents from the 2020 election that it seized last week, The move escalates a voting batt