First-Term Trump Lawyer Makes Dire Election Prediction

Key Points:

• Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb warned that Donald Trump plans to interfere in the midterm elections even after ballots are cast, including efforts to block the certification of Alaska’s Senate race if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses.
• The Trump administration unsuccessfully attempted to block California from counting mail-in ballots from over 20,000 voters alleged to be noncitizens, a move Judge David Carter condemned as coercion of state election procedures.
• The Alaska Senate race is complicated by two candidates named Dan Sullivan, with Trump’s team alleging that the Democratic candidate Mary Peltola’s campaign encouraged a second Dan Sullivan to run to confuse voters.
• Trump has demanded that Peltola be removed from the ballot and filed a lawsuit to block certification of the Alaska Senate election if the incumbent loses, but Cobb believes these efforts aim to sow confusion and will ultimately fail.
• Cobb emphasized that democracy depends on voters freely choosing their representatives and criticized Trump for undermining the rule of law, predicting ongoing legal challenges and federal demands in other states after the midterms.