"Midterms are more than a year away, but Trump is already challenging them

Chris Brennan column in USA Today:

They’re building the machine now to meddle in the 2026 midterm elections 15 months from now .

And those machinations are built on two lessons learned from 2020: Attack the election with everything you have before it happens, and stock the Trump administration only with officials who will do exactly what he says on elections, no matter what the law says.

Trump’s team of election deniers, including Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel , represent both of these lessons.

The first they learned in 2020, when they failed while trying to help Trump overturn a free and fair election. It was all so careless and chaotic back then, a dizzying series of unsubstantiated claims and discombobulated news conferences punctuated by