i've been expecting something like this to happen in november if not sooner; 

 

Donald Trump has refused to rule out declaring a national emergency to seize greater control over the midterm elections, where Democrats are expected to make massive gains.

The President has spent months pressing the Senate to pass the SAVE America Act, which would require Americans to provide proof of citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections and to show photo ID at the polls.

Conservative television host Wayne Allyn Root of Real America's Voice brought up the possibility of Trump declaring a national security emergency if the Senate fails to act.

'They can't challenge it,' Root said. 'It can only be overturned by a two-thirds vote by both houses of Congress. So if you do this in the next month, we will get photo ID, proof of citizenship (for voter registration) and a limit to mail-in ballots.' 

Trump cut the host off and suggested he would consider it: 'Let me just say that stranger things have happened, OK? I'll leave it at that.'

The President has long been fixated on claims of voter fraud and has falsely insisted that he won the 2020 election.

More recently, he has sought to exert greater control over elections through a March executive order that would bar the US Postal Service from delivering mail ballots in states that refuse to hand over their voter lists to the federal government..........more.............