Is Trump about to rig the midterm elections?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
The election offices of Fulton County were raided by FBI agents yesterday morning. Fulton, in the state of Georgia, was at the heart of Donald Trump's claims six years ago that he’d won the 2020 election (he didn’t). Why are ballot boxes of archived votes now being removed from the premises? Is this still about a six years ago old grudge? Or does it presage Trump's plan for the November midterm elections? We speak to the Commissioner on the premises who watched the action unfold before her eyes.
Later - offensive language warning - the Reform councillor on the Redcar ballot - who got through Nigel Farage's self-admittedly “piss poor“ vetting system.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK Commercial Banking, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.8 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.2 | I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more that we have. |
| 0:20.8 | That's the infamous phone call of Donald Trump trying to bully an election official |
| 0:26.1 | in a state that he lost in November of 2020. |
| 0:31.9 | Why is it back in the news? |
| 0:33.4 | Because the FBI have just raided the officers to try and overturn that result nearly six years on. |
| 0:44.2 | Is this really about the election of 2020 or about the midterm elections of 2026? |
| 0:50.9 | Might there never be a free and fair election in the United States again? Welcome to the news |
| 0:57.2 | agents. The news agents. It's Lewis. It's Emily. And yesterday morning, the FBI burst into the |
| 1:09.5 | election office in Fulton County. They had a search |
| 1:13.3 | warrant and they demanded the records that related to that 2020 election. In other words, |
| 1:21.0 | an election that was fought nearly six years ago. Donald Trump lost Georgia in the 2020 election. Georgia is naturally a Republican state. |
| 1:32.8 | It is most often won by Republican candidates. It goes red quite often. But in 2020, it went |
| 1:40.3 | blue. And Donald Trump, frankly, couldn't get over it. And he made claims about voter fraud in Fulton |
| 1:48.0 | County, home to Atlanta. And these were pretty central to his efforts to try to overturn the whole |
| 1:54.1 | election. You remember that election narrative, that the election had been stolen from him by Joe |
| 1:59.9 | Biden, which led to that attempted insurrection |
| 2:03.2 | on the Capitol on the 6th of January of the following year 2021. So yesterday morning, the FBI turned up |
| 2:12.0 | at these offices and essentially started removing these archived ballots. We're going to hear a little bit more about |
| 2:22.0 | that in a moment what happened in detail from the Fulton County Commissioner there, Mo Ivory. |
| 2:28.4 | But there were all these false claims that election workers had pulled ballots out of suitcases after the county |
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