Overview

• On August 18, Trump announced on Truth Social that he will sign an executive order to “bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections” by targeting state-run mail-in voting procedures.
• He vowed to “lead a movement to get rid of” mail-in ballots and implied that his upcoming executive action would seek to ban or severely restrict vote-by-mail.
• In the Oval Office, he suggested that being “in a war” could justify canceling future U.S. elections, raising alarms about democratic norms.
• Voting-rights lawyers and advocacy groups have condemned his statements as an unprecedented abuse of power and are gearing up for legal challenges.
• Fact-checking organizations have disputed his claims of widespread mail-in ballot fraud, noting that many established democracies conduct postal voting without major corruption.