Donald Trump says he will "do anything necessary to make sure we have honest elections" in midterms

President Donald Trump said earlier this year that he would do whatever he judged necessary to ensure balloting is free of fraud in this November’s midterm elections, and he did not dismiss having National Guard troops or federal law-enforcement officers at voting sites. The vote will decide control of Congress. The remarks followed his casual mention of canceling it. Legal experts say such deployments would exceed presidential authority, and a Democratic senator is pressing administration officials to promise that troops won’t appear at voting sites. State officials are bracing for a Justice Department monitoring program expected to send about 1,000 workers. Trump has repeatedly claimed without proof that noncitizens vote and Democrats cheat; no meaningful evidence of such fraud has emerged. Federal law generally bars armed federal officers at voting locations.