Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
From Minnesota to Georgia, Trump’s plans to interfere in the midterms are becoming more dangerous.
In early February, the Trump administration deployed the FBI to seize nearly 700 boxes of ballots and voting records from the 2020 election in Fulton County, Georgia, which has been an epicenter of the president’s conspiracy theories about the election he lost.
‘‘Why do they want Fulton County?” said Democratic State Rep. Saira Draper. “Well, that’s obvious. It’s the biggest county in Georgia, and it houses Atlanta. If you control Fulton County that basically guarantees for Republicans they win every statewide race.”
And mere days before, in fact on the same day that a federal immigration officer killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Attorney General Pam Bondi demanded that Minnesota hand over its full, unredacted voter roll to the Department of Justice as a way to “bring an end to the chaos in Minnesota.”
This demand for state voter data was an ultimatum. Or as Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon put it, “an apparent ransom to pay for our state’s peace and security.”
Watch:
From Minnesota to Georgia, Trump’s plans to interfere in the midterms are becoming more dangerous.
In early February, the Trump administration deployed the FBI to seize nearly 700 boxes of ballots and voting records from the 2020 election in Fulton County, Georgia, which has been an epicenter of the president’s conspiracy theories about the election he lost.
‘‘Why do they want Fulton County?” said Democratic State Rep. Saira Draper. “Well, that’s obvious. It’s the biggest county in Georgia, and it houses Atlanta. If you control Fulton County that basically guarantees for Republicans they win every statewide race.”
And mere days before, in fact on the same day that a federal immigration officer killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Attorney General Pam Bondi demanded that Minnesota hand over its full, unredacted voter roll to the Department of Justice as a way to “bring an end to the chaos in Minnesota.”
This demand for state voter data was an ultimatum. Or as Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon put it, “an apparent ransom to pay for our state’s peace and security.”
Watch:
