(Photo: AFP)WASHINGTON - From calls for his Republican party to “nationalise” voting to his repeated false claims of a stolen election, President Donald Trump is ramping up attacks on the US electoral system ahead of this year’s US midterm polls. We should take over the voting in at least — many, 15 places.’ The Republicans ought to nationalise the voting,” Trump told podcaster and former FBI deputy director Dan Bongino this week. Polls show low approval ratings for second-term president Trump while Republicans have suffered a string of losses in local elections. “I don’t know why the federal government doesn’t do them anyway,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday when asked about his comments about nationalising elections. Everybody now knows that,” Trump told world leaders at the Davos forum in January.

Source: Bangkok Post February 05, 2026 09:33 UTC