They’re preparing temporary restraining orders and monitoring the president’s every word for clues about what he could do next.

President Donald Trump’s move to bypass the Supreme Court striking down his “Liberation Day” tariffs with a separate but temporary 15% “worldwide tariff” tees up the president for another policy defeat just months before the November midterm elections.

A massive shift from what we saw back in November of 2024 when Donald Trump won by a point, and I will note that this sample was weighte

President Donald Trump has long spread conspiracy theories about voting that are designed to explain away his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.

The Supreme Court’s Friday ruling that President Donald Trump exceeded his authority when he imposed sweeping tariffs on nearly every U.S. trading partner could have provided some much-needed cover for vulnerable Republicans heading into the midterm elections.

President Trump has dropped unsubtle hints about his desire to cancel the November elections. “We have to even run against these people,” he said in a speech last month. “I won’t say cancel the election; they should cancel the election.” Mr. Trump didn’t stop there. “When you think of it, we shouldn’t even have an election,” he mused a week later.

Trump has no authority to run federal elections. In this year’s midterms, the big threat to democracy is apathy and complacency.

President Donald Trump endorsed Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for re-election, calling him a “strong and highly respected” leader in a post on Truth Social.

President Trump increases his attacks when he fears an election loss. With midterm elections approaching, he has gone into overdrive as Republicans face potential losses.

A former congressman described the president’s party as an “authoritarian-embracing cult.” A prominent conservative writer said Trumpism is an “existential threat.” And a retired Army general, his voice shaking with emotion, cited post-Nazi Germany as a roadmap for the nation’s post-Trump recovery.