The Democratic senator Ruben Gallego has proposed that, should Donald Trump try to sabotage the midterm elections, Americans should respond with a general strike that would “grind the country to a halt”. He continued: “We’re not going to keep going to work and boosting the world’s greatest economy in exchange for us to give up on democracy. Last week the FBI searched an election office in Georgia’s Fulton County for records related to the 2020 election. You cannot go to the levels that we used to invade other countries for, basically, for doing such autocratic shit. “They won’t even stand right now the fact that you have ICE agents roaming in our neighbourhoods without warrants.

Source: The Guardian February 06, 2026 06:08 UTC