Senate Majority Leader John Thune broke with the president after Trump called for the GOP to take over elections and nationalize the voting process ahead of midterms.

President Donald Trump is facing fresh legal peril over his latest efforts to sow doubt about the 2020 election, with lawyers in Georgia preparing to sue after his FBI raided an election hub last week.

He listed Atlanta, Detroit and Philadelphia after making unfounded fraud claims.

Donald Trump called for Republicans to “nationalize” elections, reflecting the US president’s desire to assert more control over the county’s electoral system.

Growing violence and harassment have driven half of the top election officials in nearly a dozen states to quit their jobs since Donald Trump refused to acknowledge his defeat by Joe Biden in 2020. Around 50 percent of high-ranking public officials have left election administration posts in 11 states since November 2020,

President Trump says Republicans should take over elections in some places to fight corruption for which there is little if any evidence.

Donald Trump is turning his attention to electoral issues before the midterm elections, when control of Congress will be at stake.

The Trump administration has recently escalated its efforts to prove widespread voter fraud in 2020. Election officials and top Republicans have repeatedly said these claims are baseless.

The Trump administration last week launched an extraordinary new gambit in President Donald Trump’s yearslong effort to sow doubts about the 2020 election: a controversial search of an elections office in Fulton County,