Trump says GOP will have ‘bigger, stronger’ election integrity force in 2026

President Trump said Sunday that the election integrity force Republicans sent to polling locations during the last presidential cycle will be repeated for the 2026 midterms on a larger scale.

“During my Historic Election in 2024, when I won every single Swing State, and decisively won both the Electoral and Popular votes by wide margins, the Republicans had an Election Integrity Army in every single State to preserve the sanctity of each legal vote,” the president posted on Truth Social. “We will be doing the same again in 2026, but it will be much bigger and stronger.”

Mr. Trump said the goal is to ensure the upcoming election will be fair. The president has repeatedly accused Democrats of trying to cheat as he has called for passage of legislation to require proof of citizenship to register to vote and photo ID to cast a ballot. 

The SAVE America Act would also force states to remove noncitizens from voter rolls.

Democrats have said the measure erects roadblocks for valid U.S. citizens and is designed to disenfranchise minority voters. 

Mr. Trump announced his election integrity force as a contrast to the election task force that Senate Democrats launched last month.

The Democrats’ task force is tasked with identifying and mitigating what they have said are threats to the 2026 election that stem directly from Mr. Trump.

That task force includes 10 Democratic senators and outside officials who specialize in election law, such as former Attorney General Eric Holder and Marc Elias of the Elias Law Group.

Mr. Trump said the group “will no doubt try to suppress Republican voters and interfere in our elections.” 

He derided Mr. Holder as being “famous for handing guns to Mexican cartels under the Barack Hussein Obama administration” and Mr. Elias for being “a terrible lawyer” and a “disgusting individual who was responsible for the fake Russia dossier from a foreign nation to meddle in the 2016 Election.”

“The Democrats are totally unhinged and we will not allow them to threaten the integrity of our Elections,” Mr. Trump posted.

Mr. Elias called Mr. Trump’s attack “unhinged.”

“I wear his scorn as a badge of honor,” he said on social media. “I defeated Trump and his allies more than 60 times in court when he tried to steal the 2020 election. … He and the GOP hate me because I fight. They fear me because I win.”