Since the first day of President Trump’s second term, his administration has pursued a strategy to interfere in elections. It has targeted election officials and others who defend fair elections, purported to rewrite election rules, seized election records, attempted to gain access to state voter rolls, pardoned the January 6 rioters, and elevated election deniers within the government.
Many of these actions have been justified by false claims of voter fraud, including the lie that the 2020 election was somehow “stolen” — baseless allegations that have been rejected by dozens of courts and never substantiated with real evidence. When Trump tried to overturn the results in 2020, institutions and key officials blocked him. Now many of these bulwarks are gone or severely weakened, and with the power of the federal government at his disposal once again, he is aiming to meddle with how future elections are run. The president has no power to run our elections — the Constitution leaves that to the states and Congress. In addition, these efforts can be used to cast doubt on results considered unfavorable.
This page collects the Brennan Center’s analysis, research, and litigation related to the Trump administration’s unprecedented campaign to undermine elections — and the legal, institutional, and bipartisan efforts to defend the integrity of elections.
