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Gaming The Midterm Elections Is A Bipartisan Sport

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22.05.2026

Many pundits are predicting that the Democrats will enjoy huge successes in the November mid-term elections, retaking the U.S. House and maybe – just maybe – gain control of the U.S. Senate. This is hardly surprising.

The party occupying the White House typically loses seats in the mid-terms. The Democrats are hoping that concerns about gasoline prices and inflation will bolster their momentum. But Democrats also are hedging their bets by drumming up apocalyptic warnings that the Trump Administration is trying to interfere with the election.

The Brennan Center was quick out of the gates, dropping a podcast last September, “The Campaign to Undermine the Midterms,” warning about Trump’s plan to hijack the elections. Its claims were covered by several news outlets such as The New York Times and National Public Radio.

WBUR, a Boston public radio station, recently aired a report, “New England Democrats fear Trump will meddle in midterm elections,” while Protectdemocracy.org recently published “Executive Override: How the Trump Administration plans to interfere with the 2026 elections, and what you can do about it.” The latter claimed that “For the first time in modern American history, the machinery of the federal government — which is meant to serve our........

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