Trump Has Already Floated the Idea Twice (in this year alone) of Cancelling Future Elections

In January, in an interview with Reuters:

"How we have to even run against these people—I won't say cancel the election; they should cancel the election."

In May 2026 "Truth" Social Posting:

"We cannot allow there to be an Election that is conducted unconstitutionally simply for the 'convenience' of State Legislatures... The byproduct is that the Republicans will receive more than 20 House Seats in the upcoming Midterms!"

During in July 16th, 2026 Presidential Address:

"no country can be great without fair and honest elections"

And subsequently claimed past election interference that he fully attributes to China; while releasing the 2016 FBI's report on Russian election inference reports.

Earlier this year, SCOTUS arbitrarily struck down the 1971 Voting Rights Act, last year claimed they would engage in mid-decade redistricting (outside of next census occurring in 2030), as well enforce/encourage passing of the "SAVE (America) Act", which is much more interested in disenfranchising legitimate voters (and suppression of the vote, subverting the will of the People), than it does purportedly solve their unfounded concerns regarding "rampant" (or inferred: ubiquitous) illegal voting, fraudulent voting, or claims that foreign advisaries interfere in our elections. On that topic, Trump has squarely stated "If it wasn't for Elon, I wouldn't have won the election... Elon knows all about those election computers!" Outside of the aforementioned points, the weaponized federal government apparatus (under direct control of the Trump regime) has repeatedly assailed states' individual autonomy to perform elections, how they see fit (a right enshrined into the constitution; the same constitution the WH has placed a curtain over and removed from the government's websites. Simultaneously, this regime has both unfoundedly and illegally seized ballots and subsequently successfully voter rolls, in 4/5 states; the state they were unsuccessful in obtaining the 2020 ballots from was Minnesota - who Trump-regime blackmailed and sunk ICE agents upon, to mount pressure for their release - but was subsequently denied. Since then, we've learned that the federal government wanted to obtain voter rolls from each of the 50 states, so they enforce only issuing ballots to "valid voters" - a list they control (and with zero independent watchdogs and/or oversight). In turn, this illegal regime has gone on to state that if the individuals states refuse to comply, that they would in turn, refuse issuing ballots to our service members, and the disabled (since this administration is attempting to render mail-in-voting illegal). Additionally, this Trump-regime disbanded the Federal Voting Assistance Commission, by firing and ejecting three-independent federal election commissioners. Lastly, the SAVE Act's true purpose, is to disenfranchise woman voters (due to changes in last name), and require eligible voters obtain a passport - in order to vote. As you're aware, passports are federal documents (they control), unlike driver's licenses - which are issued by individual states. If this law is subsequently and successfully codified into law, it would saddle eligible voters with a minimum of $65 (passport booklet), and upwards of $165 (for issuance of full passport books); notably, this does not include the potential upwards costs $5-$15 costs to procure/obtain and then procure to the passport office, a printed photo; nor does it account for the 4-8 week lead-time, required to receive one's passport.

These are not the only gambits used. In past years, we've seen:

• Priming/choreographing/framing/before-the-fact claims associated to "wide-spread fraud" within elections, in the form of purported voting fraud, and/or foreign interference in our elections.
• Louis DeJoy's dismantling and subsequent slow-down in USPS mail, by the unsanctioned decommissioning of multi-million dollar automated sorting equipment. This achieves delaying mail arrival. Also this year, the Trump-regime's weaponized DOJ has called for the prosecution of state election officials, governors; along with instructing the USPS to reject mail-in-ballot mail delivery and/or mandatory PII barcoding be affixed to the outside of mail-in-ballots, in this upcoming election.
• Fabricated "bomb threats" called into polling sites, within democratic blue state, strongholds.
• Going after the ballot boxes themselves, through a combination of tampering with the boxes and ballots contained within.
• Trump's forced demands for Republican congressional legislators to unanimously pass both "Antiweaponization of Government Act", as well as the "Save (America) Act". After Trump sickeningly referred to the J6 insurrectionists as "victims" and pardoned all offending participants (the same day, as his inauguration), he is subsequently demanding that each insurrectionist be compensated restitution, in the amount of roughly ~$1M each. He likely wants for this to pass, so he can utilize both the Proud Boys/MAGA vigilantes (while offering them additional follow-up pardons) and ICE/military to interfere with polling places, and ballot boxes - if not the straight up seizing of ballots, upon collection by election workers.
• Claims that vote-counting and results be made immediate, and/or false claims of "ballot stuffing". Even though the law permits votes to be counted, so long as they are post-marked by the date of election: this Trump-regime argues that there's not legitimate need for vote counting beyond when the polls close, abruptly, by 7PM on November 5th. Similarly, if the Trump-regime got their way, they would claim/demand that the only legitimate votes cast, be ones cast in-person, on election day only. Because of these fabricated claims, Trump contests that since vote counting took upwards of a few weeks for all results to roll in during California's elections last year - that constituted voting fraud.
• Trump has cloyingly/slyly suggested he be offered a "3rd" term presidency, due to his repeated and ongoing claims that the "2020 election was stolen from us" ("I", the royal "us). As you're already quite aware, even with the unfounded in precedent decision for SCOTUS to provide absolute blanket immunity for president's to engage in "official" acts: in 2020, Trump engaged in a systematic mis/dis-information campaign, subsequent lawsuits, and both the infamous Rathensperger and Zelensky phone calls - attempts to seize power and exploit/extort both state election officials, and foreign figures, alike. As a matter of fact, just this year - with the Trump administration's illegal excursions into Venezuela, they captured Nicholas Moduro, and following his capture - attempted to force/coerce him into stating that Venezuela interfered in the 2020 elections. These are clear patterns of abuse, with one undeniable and objective outcome - win at all costs.
• "My beautiful Christians... I'm not Christian: get out there and vote. If you vote this one time, you'll never need to vote again; we'll have everything so 'fixed', you'll never have to vote again [...] I don't need your vote."
• Trump to Pennsylvania: "Stop the count; stop counting votes!" (implying the continued and ongoing counting was illegal, and the only possible purpose for ongoing counting - were the counting of illegal votes from fraudulent voters/ballots.
• and many... many... many more.