Warner questions whether Trump will interfere in 2026 midterms [View all]

Source: The Hill

02/08/26 4:26 PM ET


Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) on Sunday questioned the possibility of President Trump interfering in the 2026 midterm elections. Warner’s concern stemmed from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s effort to gather voting records related to the 2020 presidential election, which Trump has falsely claimed he won.

“The fact is Donald Trump cannot get over the fact that he lost Georgia in 2020, that he lost the election in 2020,” Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said during an appearance on CBS News’s “Face the Nation.” “My fear is now, he sees the political winds turning against him, and is he going to try to interfere in the 2026 elections? Something a year ago I didn’t think would be possible,” he continued.

Warner’s statements follow an FBI probe of a Fulton County, Ga., election hub where agents confiscated voting ballots from the 2020 election, with Gabbard on site. Earlier in the year, she also helped authorities seize voting machines in Puerto Rico after the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said it received allegations of “discrepancies and systemic anomalies.” Warner says lawmakers were not previously informed of Gabbard’s presence during the Georgia raid.

“We have asked. OK, we then subsequently found that this was not the first time she was involved in domestic activities. She went down and seized some voting machines in Puerto Rico earlier in the year. Again, we had no knowledge of that. And then the question of what she was doing in Georgia, there’s been three or four different stories since it broke,” the Virginia senator said.

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