Analysis: Democrats are trying to connect the dots on Trump’s 2026 plan | CNN Politics

The next election is always the most important for politicians on the ballot, which in this year’s midterms will be every member of the US House and about a third of the Senate. But in the case of these particular midterms, leaders on both sides are suggesting the future of the republic is at stake. “Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy, but right now they are under threat,” former President Barack Obama told Virginians in a March ad promoting the state’s redistricting proposal. The move would add Virginia to a partisan race to redraw maps with the goal of putting all but one of the state’s current five GOP members of Congress out of a job. President Donald Trump, MAGA master of the bumper-sticker catchphrase, rebranded his party’s voter ID bill, which would effectively end mail-in voting and require in-person proof of citizenship to register to vote, among many other things. It used to be called the SAVE Act – a “stupid name,” he told Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade in a recent interview – before it changed to the “SAVE America Act.” Like “Make America Great Again,” the suggestion is descriptive and, according to Trump, impossible to