Donald Trump says "stranger things have happened" about using emergency powers to oversee elections

According to The Atlantic, President Donald Trump’s aides have spent months trying to keep him from unsubstantiated election-fraud narratives while some outside supporters urge him to intervene in the upcoming midterms, including through military rule. During an interview last month on ally Wayne Allyn Root’s radio program, Root floated using emergency powers to oversee elections, and Trump sounded intrigued and did not reject the idea. Experts say emergency declarations do not grant presidents authority over elections. Republican leaders mostly oppose such a move, and a White House official said Root and other outside allies play no role in election policy. The episode matters because Trump has not clearly ruled out an extraordinary effort to influence election administration.