Trump’s Dilemma: Rigging or Cancelling the US Midterm Elections

Against the backdrop of the war with Iran, a deteriorating economic situation, and a growing political crisis in the United States, an increasingly pressing question is emerging: will the administration of Donald Trump be able to retain power in the face of a potential defeat in the midterm elections?

The motivations of many are not so obvious, and few are taking the time to dig deeper. The US Treasury Department has declared the US insolvent, which means that it is broke and only digging itself deeper in debt. That is the conclusion drawn directly from the Treasury Department’s own consolidated financial statements for fiscal year 2025, which were recently released to near-total media silence.

Timing is everything!

Once that information hits home, it is felt all the more by voters, especially with regressive taxes on working-class Americans; any hope of a Republican win in both houses of Congress is a lost cause. Already the debacle in Iran has brought the political and economic weakness of the US to light, especially how the Republicans and Democrats are controlled by special interests and Americans are not getting ahead.

That is perhaps why Iran is encouraging Vance to indirectly support the removal of Trump from office by only wanting to negotiate with him over the ongoing war. Now that claims are being made of efforts to negotiate, at least two of those close to Trump, Whitkoff and Kushner, have been eliminated as fake negotiators, unprofessional at best, and treasonous agents for Israel at worst. Iran insists on VP JD Vance, perhaps because Vance was once upon a time against any new wars in the Middle East.

I don’t think Vance will dare to… He isn’t popular and probably knows it…but the very powerful, wealthy tech bros are behind him….MAGA is starting to break up, and frankly I don’t think any of them like each other or trust each other very much… I think there were always several different factions with often very different ideologies and priorities, and the only real thing they had in common was that they saw Trump as a means to achieving their ends.

Trump was the only alternative to Biden and his woke agenda, and people had enough of sordid Bill Clinton-esque sex scandals and stories of the drug addict son who was a business Wizkid in Ukraine. I would have voted for Jill Stein, and/or Bernie Sanders. The two-party system has turned into a joke, especially since it is owned by the Zionists and special interests.

Democrats in lockstep!

What makes the situation worse is that Democrats are in lockstep with Republicans over the attack on Iran, dutifully making excuses for the excesses of US and Israeli strikes, such as the killing of nearly 170 Iranian schoolgirls in the infamous “double tap” Tomahawk cruise missile strike on a primary school in Minab.

The result is that both parties, appear to be facing a fight amongst their own supporters along generational lines. The “Boomer” generation on both sides is, to say the least, violently pro-Israel, while younger voters in both camps are increasingly questioning not only military support for Israel, but any support at all, with Biden and Harris’ unconditional support for Netanyahu and the Israeli genocide of Palestinians driving away young and Muslim Democrat voters during 2024, and now this is also being reflected in young Republicans rejecting Trump’s total support of Israel and his assault on Iran.

It is obvious that Donald Trump, his war of choice against Iran literally stabbing the world economy in the heart, and undoing any economic good his presidency may have done, is looking an electoral catastrophe in the face, especially as many of his previous supporters, such as Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Thomas Massie, have jumped ship in protest at his betrayal of election promises, from no new wars, to draining the Washington swamp to releasing the Epstein files, people whose influence, especially with younger voters disillusioned with the corruption of Washington DC and its now obvious capture by AIPAC and the Israel lobby, is immense.

Some, such as Nick Fuentes, are so angry they are calling for Republican voters to either boycott the elections, or go so far as to hold their noses and vote Democrat, in order to gut the party of its neocon members. I doubt that giving the Democrats a landslide will work out as well as Fuentes thinks, however.

Regardless of boycotts, it is looking possible that Trump may lose both the House and Senate, leaving him exposed to further impeachment proceedings, something repeatedly threatened by the Democrats, so what is a president to do?

There are two options: either rig or suspend the midterms, and my suspicion is that the latter is quite likely.

How would Trump go about this? Well, a major war might give him the room to “suspend elections during an emergency,” not directly, as he lacks the power to do so constitutionally, but currently the Republicans have a majority in both the Senate and Congress, and Congress has the power to do so. Would the RINOs and Neocons, staring oblivion in the face, support the president and delay elections due to a major ground war in Iran, or a fight with China over Taiwan? Quite possibly.

Even more alarming is the possibility of a false flag terror attack that would make September 11th look like a kindergarten class. Recently, in a televised cabinet meeting, the vice president, JD Vance, raised the specter of Iran developing “nuclear suicide vests,” which rings of a setup for a catastrophic false flag, if ever I saw one.

Henry Kamens, columnist and expert on Central Asia and the Caucasus

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