Trump laying groundwork to impose national emergency by sowing election distrust
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... A series of moves by Donald Trump's administration to sow doubt in the integrity of US elections have intensified concern among voting experts -- and sparked hope among election deniers -- that it could declare a national emergency.

The White House and US federal agencies have released a string of documents this summer -- including disputed analyses of alleged voting by noncitzens and historical intelligence memos -- stoking expectations that the US president could move to exert greater control over November's US midterm elections.

Trump used a primetime television address in July to claim -- again -- that US elections were vulnerable to foreign manipulation, and repeat the lie that the 2020 presidential election, which he lost to Joe Biden, was stolen.

Trump's speech prompted Steve Bannon, his former political strategist, to predict the US president will declare a state of emergency on national security grounds to "protect" elections. ...