HuffPost reports:

President Donald Trump’s efforts to interfere with the 2026 elections have almost universally failed. Courts have halted his most egregious actions, Congress has rejected his anti-voting legislation and civil groups have stepped up to support election officials.

The list of Trump’s failures is long.

Courts blocked both of his executive orders aimed at limiting access to voting, including an effort to direct the Postal Service not to deliver certain mail ballots. His administration has lost all 26 cases it has brought against states demanding their full, unredacted voter rolls as part of a plan to run that information through a citizenship database known for its faults. In September, a district court judge ruled that such a plan constituted an illegal “dragnet” that “flies in the face of duly enacted laws designed to protect Americans.”

In Congress, Trump’s push to pass the SAVE Act, which would have added significant new barriers to voter registration and could have disenfranchised every woman who took her husband’s last name, failed to clear a Democratic filibuster in the Senate, even after multiple attempts were made to attach it to unrelated legislation.

“These overt efforts to attack elections are failing over and over again,” said Hannah Fried, CEO of All Voting Is Local, a voting rights nonprofit.

That doesn’t mean Trump won’t keep trying.

From falsely claiming that President Barack Obama was born in Africa and could not serve as president to lying about his 2020 election loss and attempting a coup to stay in power, Trump has not accepted the results of any election that didn’t go his way. Trump has even falsely claimed there was fraud in elections that he won.

“One thing is certain: on election night we will hear from the president from the White House spreading lies about our elections and slandering election workers as they’re busy doing their work,” said David Becker, executive director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research.

But Trump’s lies and bluster are likely to remain just that. After all his efforts over the past two years have failed, Trump has a few more ways to try to interfere in the midterms. But none of them are legal, and courts have said so. Meanwhile, more than 9 million people have already voted. [Continue reading…]