#election-denial
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At Trump's Explicit Direction — "I'm the One That Said, 'Do It'" — the Justice Department Preemptively Sued to Block Certification of Alaska's U.S. Senate Race if the Republican Incumbent Dan Sullivan Lost, on a Theory About a Same-Named Spoiler Candidate; a Federal Judge Tossed the "Highly Unusual" Suit, and Even Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski Said the Department "Should Never Have Filed" It
In late October 2026, the Trump Justice Department filed an extraordinary lawsuit: it asked a federal court to block the certification of Alaska's U.S. Senate election — but only if the Republican incumbent, Sen. Dan Sullivan, lost. The government's theory rested on the presence of a second candidate on the ballot, Daniel J. Sullivan, which it claimed was a deliberate effort to confuse voters who meant to vote for the senator. Trump made no secret of who was behind it: asked about the suit, he told reporters, "Well, I'm the one that said, 'do it.'" The filing was remarkable for what it asked a court to do — pre-authorize the nullification of an election result contingent on the wrong candidate winning. A federal judge dismissed the "highly unusual" suit around November 1, declining to block certification. The bipartisan nature of the rebuke was striking: Alaska's own Republican senator, Lisa Murkowski, said the department "should never have filed this lawsuit," and Attorney General Todd Blanche publicly retreated, insisting the DOJ did not seek to stop any ballot from being counted or any certification from occurring — a claim hard to square with the lawsuit's plain demand. It was the election-denial impulse this archive has tracked all year, translated for the first time into an actual federal filing: a request to let the government refuse to certify an election it did not like the look of.
Trump Fired Every Remaining Member of the Bipartisan Election Assistance Commission — Gutting the Agency That Certifies Voting Machines Four Months Before the Midterms — Then Gave a Primetime Address Claiming China Stole "220 Million Voter Files," a Claim His Own Government's Intelligence Flatly Contradicts
On July 16, 2026, Trump delivered a 25-minute primetime address from the White House East Room claiming he was "declassifying intelligence" that revealed "shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure" — including the assertion that "The People's Republic of China carried out what is believed to be the largest compromise of election data in history, resulting in China's illicit acquisition of 220 million U.S. voter files." His own government's intelligence contradicts him: a federal report from March 2021 concluded "We have no indications that any foreign actor attempted to alter any technical aspect of the voting process in the 2020 US elections." FactCheck.org and others found the documents the White House posted did not support the sweeping claims. The speech came exactly one week after Trump fired the three remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission — Democrats Thomas Hicks and Benjamin Hovland (dismissed by email) and Republican Christy McCormick (asked to resign by phone) — leaving the bipartisan federal agency that certifies voting-machine standards and helps states run elections without a quorum, unable to act, and unlikely to regain one before the November midterms. The White House cited a recent 6-3 Supreme Court decision on the president's power to fire independent-agency members as its justification. Trump also repeated debunked 2020 conspiracy theories and baselessly claimed fraud cost a Republican the Los Angeles mayoral primary. A Reuters analysis found his noncitizen-voting claims unsupported — just 129 prosecutions under the relevant law since 1996, most involving confusion or paperwork errors, not organized fraud. It all lands atop the administration's broader campaign to seize control of election administration: the FEMA counterterrorism-funding blackmail, the SAVE voter-roll purges, and DOJ criminal threats to state officials.
"RIGGED": Trump Cries Fraud After Virginia Voters Approve Redistricting That Could Cost GOP 4 Seats
Virginia voters approved a redistricting referendum 51.5%–48.6% that could flip four House seats to Democrats. Trump immediately declared it "RIGGED" on Truth Social, claiming a "massive Mail In Ballot Drop" — with zero evidence. CNN: the count pattern had a "straightforward explanation" — big counties take longer to count than small ones.