House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries vowed on Sunday that Democrats would resist and block any attempts by Republicans to “nationalize” U.S. elections, which he characterized as an effort by Donald Trump to “steal” the 2026 midterm elections.
The rebuke came in response to the president’s declaration this past week that the GOP should seek to intervene in contests on a national level. Conservatives have insisted that the president was not insisting upon full federal control of elections, though his comments came just days after FBI agents raided an elections center in Fulton County, Georgia, as part of an unspecified grand jury criminal investigation.
