No sugar-coating this, John. President Trump said during a recent interview with The New York Times that he regretted not ordering the National Guard to seize voting machines in swing states after his loss in the 2020 election. In his own words:

Let's review the facts. Alleged mail-in ballot fraud was rigorously investigated, using millions of taxpayer dollars, resulting in few actual court cases -- most notably a man in Pennsylvania who returned his deceased mother's ballot for Donald Trump. Lies were repeatedly spread against voting machine manufacturer Dominion Voting Systems, resulting in $78 million in damages settled in a defamation case brought by Dominion against Fox News. Despite years of effort by hysterical MAGA partisans, no valid proof of any misdeeds relating to the 2020 election has been brought to light.

This is a big red warning sign for our elections coming up and our fight for voting rights in general. If the sitting president still can't accept defeat years later after winning another election and returning to power, what makes us think he'll accept election losses by his party in November?

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This isn't the first time Trump has circled back to 2020. In the week before this New York Times interview, he continued to push the claim that Dominion machines had been rigged against him on social media.

He's also weaponized the federal budget to cut funding for a key weather research facility in Colorado, all because he issued a nonbinding presidential pardon for a state-level crime. A former Colorado county clerk is serving a nine-year prison sentence on state charges of tampering with Dominion machines in an effort to prove that they were used in a plot against Mr. Trump. They weren't, but MAGA sees her as a martyr for their cause and want her released.

President Trump has already spent his first term deploying the National Guard, under debatable legal authority, for his own purposes. There is little doubt that he'd try and use them again if he doesn't like the outcome of the midterms.

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