Why Are some Trump Supporters Urging Him to Declare Martial Law Before Midterms? Advisor to POTUS Explains 3 Scenarios
Peter Ticktin said soldiers could decide the election if Democrats win, while the White House says he has no role in election policy.
- Attorney Peter Ticktin, a longtime Trump ally, has floated martial law as a possible response if Republicans lose control of Congress in the November 3 midterm elections, proposing either military intervention or Trump stepping aside.
- Trump fueled these narratives by falsely reasserting he won the 2020 election and telling supporters to "cheat like hell," despite official Electoral College results showing Joe Biden defeated him 306 to 232.
- White House spokesperson Lauren Bis stated that Ticktin, Wayne Allyn Root, and Tina Peters have no role in administration election policy, while the Justice Department confirmed no plans exist to declare voting equipment unreliable without credible evidence.
- Administration officials are authorizing document reviews and equipment audits to contain election-fraud narratives, even as experts note that emergency powers grant the president no authority to override federal election results.
- These calls emerge amid broader political instability as strategists express concern about a fraying Republican coalition across battleground states and predict a "nightmare scenario" narrative if Democrats win the midterms.
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