Inside the Democratic effort to fight any Trump disruption of midterms

House Democrats are preparing legal strategies to challenge any efforts by the Trump administration to disrupt midterm voting or otherwise corrupt the election results.

Heading into November, President Trump has sought a greater federal role — and new federal limits — over the election process, which is typically controlled by states, raising concerns in the party that he will try to use his powers to tip the scales in favor of Republicans.  

Working behind the scenes, teams of Democrats have gamed out a massive list of potential threats to a fair election, identifying roughly 150 different scenarios of potential interference they’re hoping to prevent.

On one front, the lawmakers are coordinating with a host of outside watchdog groups to offer legal resources to local election officials.

On another, some of those lawmakers are barnstorming the country to brief voters and election workers about their rights at the polls.

“We both have our own lawyers, and there are also lots of lawyers throughout civil society who are prepared as much as possible for every eventuality,” said Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin (Md.), a former constitutional law professor who’s helping with the effort. “We don’t discount or undermine what Donald Trump is capable of. We saw in 2020 a dozen different plans they had to try to thwart democratic sovereignty [over] the election.”

While Democrats are largely focused on winning races in a midterm year when they’re increasingly bullish they can capture both the House and Senate majorities, the under-the-radar efforts underscore deep fears within the party that the Trump administration will seek to subvert the election results if Democrats prevail. 

Driving those fears are Trump’s actions after the 2020 presidential election, when he rejected his defeat and inspired a mob of supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol in a failed effort to overturn the........

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