Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections

By: Doug Bock Clark - ProPublica, Jen Fifield - ProPublica

Outlets: Michigan Advance

Published: April 15, 2026

Words: 4,839

Last Updated: 3 months, 2 weeks ago

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In mid-December 2020, federal officials responsible for protecting American elections from fraud converged in a windowless, dim, fortified room at the Justice Department’s downtown Washington, D.C., headquarters.

They had been summoned by Attorney General William Barr.

Over the preceding weeks, Donald Trump’s claims that the presidential election had been stolen from him had reached a crescendo. He’d become obsessed with a conspiracy theory that voting machines in Antrim County, Michigan, had switched votes from …

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