{"id":199229,"date":"2026-02-04T20:14:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T20:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-democrats-sound-alarm-after-president-mulls-election-takeover-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T20:14:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T20:14:05","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-democrats-sound-alarm-after-president-mulls-election-takeover-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-democrats-sound-alarm-after-president-mulls-election-takeover-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: Democrats sound alarm after president mulls election takeover – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump\u2019s comments raise concerns about potential efforts to rig the November midterm elections<\/a> \u2013 key US politics stories from Tuesday 3 February at a glance
Donald Trump<\/a> suggested on a conservative podcast released on Monday that Republican<\/a> state officials \u201ctake over\u201d and \u201cnationalize\u201d elections in 15 states to protect the party from being voted out of office.
Trump framed the issue as a means to prevent undocumented immigrants from voting. Claims that noncitizens are voting in numbers that can affect an election are a lie<\/a>. But it raises concerns about potential efforts by the president to rig the November midterm elections<\/a>.
Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, a Democrat, responded to Trump\u2019s comments on Tuesday. \u201cThat statement alone makes clear that this threat to our election security, the basic premise of our democracy, is forward looking, to 2026, to 2028,\u201d he said<\/a>. \u201cThis is about whether these same tactics we\u2019re seeing now, or worse, will be used to disrupt free and fair elections.\u201d
The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, later told reporters that the president \u201cbelieves there has obviously been a lot of fraud and irregularities that have taken place in American elections, and again, voter ID is a highly popular and commonsense policy that the president wants to pursue and he wants to pass legislation to make that happen for all states across the country\u201d.
Chuck Schumer, the US Senate minority leader, also weighed in on X<\/a>, writing that \u201cDemocrats will fight and block Trump\u2019s calls to nationalize elections\u201d.
\u201cThe very pillars of American society, democracy and the rule of law will prevail over cult of personality,\u201d he added.
Trump\u2019s comments<\/a> to Dan Bongino, the podcast host and short-lived former deputy director of the FBI, come less than a week after FBI agents served a criminal search warrant<\/a> to obtain nearly 700 boxes of ballots and other election material from Fulton county, Georgia, long a target of Trump\u2019s false claims of election fraud.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
A message from Donald Trump<\/a> celebrating the 19th-century US invasion of its southern neighbour \u2013 and the subsequent loss of more than half its territory \u2013 has touched a historical nerve in Mexico, with some seeing it as a veiled threat of future incursions.
Reacting to the US president\u2019s statement, which described the invasion as \u201ca legendary victory\u201d, Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico\u2019s president, said during her morning news conference on Tuesday: \u201cWe must always defend our sovereignty.\u201d
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, is running her own review into the 2020 election with Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s approval, working separately from a justice department investigation even as she joined an FBI raid of an election center in Georgia last week.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The US military<\/a> says it shot down an Iranian drone that \u201caggressively\u201d approached the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea. The Iranian Shahed-139 drone was flying toward the carrier \u201cwith unclear intent\u201d when an F-35 fighter jet shot it down, US Central Command said on Tuesday.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The release of about 3m Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> investigative files has failed to quell outrage over justice department officials\u2019 handling of these disclosures, with advocates claiming potentially millions of documents are still being withheld.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Donald Trump has announced that his administration is seeking $1bn in damages from Harvard University<\/a>, the latest step in a long-running battle with the university over allegations of antisemitism.
In a Truth Social post late on Monday, Trump accused<\/a> the Ivy League school of being \u201cstrongly antisemitic\u201d, adding that Harvard\u2019s president, Alan Garber, \u201chas done a terrible job of rectifying a very bad situation for his institution and, more importantly, America itself\u201d.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Donald Trump<\/a> on Tuesday signed legislation to end a government shutdown hours after it was approved by the House of Representatives<\/a><\/strong>, as top Democrats warned they would block further funding to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) if their demands for restrictions on Trump\u2019s mass deportation campaign are not addressed.
After months of trading insults \u2013 from \u201csick man\u201d and \u201cdrug trafficking leader\u201d on one side, to \u201caccomplice to genocide\u201d with a \u201csenile brain\u201d on the other \u2013 the first meeting between Donald Trump and Gustavo Petro ended with pleasantries, autographs and a Maga cap<\/a><\/strong>.
Don Lemon says about a dozen federal agents came to his Los Angeles hotel to arrest him overnight on 30 January, even though the former CNN anchor\u2019s attorney had told authorities he would turn himself in<\/a> <\/strong>to face federal civil rights charges over his coverage of an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a Minnesota church service.
New York is creating a team of legal observers that will don purple vests to monitor and record the Trump administration\u2019s immigration enforcement officers<\/a><\/strong> as they seek to detain and deport immigrants, the state\u2019s attorney general said on Tuesday.
Georgia\u2019s Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to the US attorney general, Pam Bondi,<\/a><\/strong> inquiring into the presence of Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence, at the scene last week of an FBI seizure of Fulton county election records from 2020.
The Trump administration<\/a> has turned to an unusual weapon in its attempt to resurrect coal mining: a cartoon lump of coal, complete with giant eyes and yellow mining garb, called \u201cCoalie\u201d<\/a><\/strong>.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened on 2 February 2026<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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