{"id":199826,"date":"2026-02-09T22:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-this-is-going-to-be-a-free-and-fair-election-says-hakeem-jeffries-after-trumps-comments-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T22:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:17:11","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-this-is-going-to-be-a-free-and-fair-election-says-hakeem-jeffries-after-trumps-comments-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-this-is-going-to-be-a-free-and-fair-election-says-hakeem-jeffries-after-trumps-comments-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: \u2018This is going to be a free and fair election,\u2019 says Hakeem Jeffries after Trump\u2019s comments – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeffries says Democrats will stop Donald Trump from trying to steal this year\u2019s midterm elections \u2013 key US politics stories from Sunday 8 February at a glance
Democrats<\/a> will stop Donald Trump<\/a> from trying to steal this year\u2019s midterm elections, Hakeem Jeffries<\/a>, the Democratic leader in the US House of Representatives said on Sunday.
Jeffries\u2019 comments come amid widespread concern<\/a> after Trump said Republicans should \u201ctake over the voting\u201d<\/a>. The US constitution gives states the power to set election rules and says Congress can pass laws to set requirements for federal elections. The constitution gives the president no authority over how elections are run.
\u201cWhat Donald Trump wants to do is try and nationalize the election \u2013 translation: steal it. And we\u2019re not going to let it happen,\u201d Jeffries said during an appearance on CNN\u2019s State of the Union. He added that Democrats so far had successfully blocked Trump\u2019s efforts to federalize the national guard <\/a>countered a nationwide push<\/a> by Republicans to redraw congressional district boundaries to their advantage.
\u201cThis is going to be a free and fair election,\u201d Jeffries said. It \u201cis going to be conducted like every other election where states and localities have the ability to administer the laws\u201d.
The Trump administration<\/a> for months has been sowing doubt about the integrity of this year\u2019s midterm elections by filing lawsuits<\/a> against states suggesting they are improperly maintaining their voter rolls. The FBI also undertook an unprecedented raid of the election office in Fulton county, Georgia, last month<\/a>, seizing ballots and other voter information related to the 2020 election. Allegations of fraud have been debunked repeatedly in Fulton county, yet Trump has continued to repeat false claims about the county.
Later in his interview on CNN, Jeffries condemned Trump\u2019s refusal to apologize<\/a> for a racist post on his Truth Social account depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. The White House deleted the post<\/a> on Friday amid widespread outcry<\/a> and said a staffer was responsible for posting it.
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Donald Trump responded to Hunter Hess on Truth Social on Sunday, calling the Olympian a \u201creal loser\u201d and criticizing comments the US freestyle skier made in a press conference days earlier.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
For years, Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> took respite at a sprawling ranch in the desert scrub outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. Epstein\u2019s nearly 10,000-acre<\/a> (4,000-hectare) property \u2013 known as Zorro ranch \u2013 was dotted with cholla cactus and Angus cattle, and came to include a 26,700 sq ft mansion, as well as a private runway and hangar.
For years, Epstein abused teenage girls and young women on this ranch with impunity, according to testimony from several women. In court proceedings, survivors detailed horror after horror they say unfolded on this isolated expanse of land.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Morgan McSweeney, Keir Starmer\u2019s chief of staff, has quit his role as the UK prime minister\u2019s closest aide<\/a><\/strong> amid anger over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador<\/a>.
It snowed two weeks ago in New York<\/a>. Since then, the temperature has barely risen above freezing \u2013 a temperature science naturally dictates is necessary to melt snow and ice. But science isn\u2019t enough for some US political critics, however, who have instead blamed Zohran Mamdani, New York\u2019s new socialist mayor<\/a><\/strong>, for the snow not having melted and still clogging up some of the city\u2019s streets.
As climate disasters drive up the price of home insurance, three US states are considering empowering their state prosecutors<\/a><\/strong> to sue major polluters for their role in those rising costs.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened Saturday 7 February<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Jeffries says Democrats will stop Donald Trump from trying to steal this year\u2019s midterm elections \u2013 key US politics stories from Sunday 8 February at a glanceDemocrats will stop Donald Trump from trying to steal this year\u2019s midterm elections, Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic leader in the US House of Representatives said on Sunday.Jeffries\u2019 comments come […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199827,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-199826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-us","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}