BREAKING: Trump Allies Push Emergency Powers to Control 2026 Elections

Trump allies float emergency powers to control elections as SAVE Act stalls and constitutional fight looms

Pro-Trump activists are urging President Donald Trump to declare a national emergency over alleged 2020 foreign interference—an unprecedented move that would hand the White House sweeping control over how Americans vote.

Yes, we’re now openly talking about a president using emergency powers to ban mail ballots and voting machines nationwide.

A 17-page draft executive order is circulating among Trumpworld figures who claim they’re coordinating with the White House. Their argument: China interfered in 2020, that interference amounts to a national emergency, and under that emergency the president can override states to impose voter ID mandates, ban mail ballots, and potentially sideline voting machines. Never mind that a 2021 intelligence review concluded China considered influencing the election but did not follow through.

Peter Ticktin—a longtime Trump ally and former classmate from New York Military Academy—is advocating the draft. He admits the Constitution gives states control over elections but argues alleged foreign interference changes the equation.

“Under the Constitution, it’s the legislatures and states that really control how a state conducts its elections, and the president doesn’t have any power to do that,” Ticktin said. “But here we have a situation where the president is aware that there are foreign interests that are interfering in our election processes. That causes a national emergency where the president has to be able to deal with it.”

This comes as Trump pressures Congress to pass the SAVE Act, requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration and voter ID to cast ballots. The House passed it; the Senate is a different story. Trump has already signaled that if lawmakers stall, he’ll act alone. “I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject, and will be presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future,” Trump posted Feb. 13. “I will be presenting them shortly, in the form of an Executive Order.”

Here’s the constitutional snag: Article I, Section 4 gives authority over elections to state legislatures and Congress—not the president. Emergency powers have been used to sanction foreign actors targeting election systems, but never to federalize the mechanics of voting itself. Courts have already blocked parts of a prior Trump election order, and any attempt to nationalize election rules via emergency declaration would be rocket fuel for a Supreme Court showdown.

Source: The Washington Post

Editor: If you can’t get the votes in Congress, just declare an emergency and grab the wheel—what could possibly go wrong?