Democrats warn of a Trump election takeover. What’s really happening? | CNN Politics

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Democrats are reaching DEFCON 1 levels of alarm about President Donald Trump’s efforts to influence the coming election. “All the signals are flashing red,” wrote Democratic strategist and CNN political analyst David Axelrod in a post on X. “On the square, the @GOP would take a beating this fall, largely because of Trump’s unpopularity,” Axelrod said, “So he’s setting up Plan B–do whatever you need to do to win. Anything. Anyone who says ‘Well, he wouldn’t do THAT’ hasn’t paid attention.” Use your imagination, in other words, and don’t be surprised at anything Trump does in the four months until Election Day. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Florida Democrat, told CNN’s John Berman on Friday that people in her overwhelmingly Democratic district are frightened about what might happen in November. “For the first time in my whole career, John, I have voters telling me that they’re worried that the president’s going to cancel elections, that he’s going to declare martial law. There are people who are actually have said to me that t