Trump Threatens to Steal the Midterms

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🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, and Mike Johnson hint at plans to steal the midterm elections, from "nationalizing" the voting to straight-up sending ICE to "surround" the polls. Jon and Dan sound the alarm and offer Democrats some advice on how to respond. Then, they react to Border Czar Tom Homan's announcement that 700 DHS officers (out of 3,000) will be leaving Minneapolis, Vice President Vance's refusal to apologize to the family of Alex Pretti for calling him a "domestic terrorist," and Jeff Bezos's gutting of The Washington Post. Then Dan talks to Maine Governor and Senate candidate Janet Mills about ICE's operations in her state, what blue states can do to protect the midterms, and whether the Democratic Party has an age problem.

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1:41.5	I'm Dan Fifer.
1:42.3	On today's show, Trump already seems deadly serious about his intention to interfere with the midterm election. So we're going to
1:49.0	talk about why the rest of us should take the threat just as seriously. We've also got more
1:53.6	on Minnesota and immigration, where Trump has choice words about Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
1:58.5	And a Trump, DOJ prosecutor goes viral for telling a judge that her job sucks and the system is broken.
2:05.4	We'll also talk about Trump and J.D. Vance berating CNN's Caitlin Collins for not smiling while she asks a question about underage rape victims.
2:14.7	And we'll also get into the massive layoffs that may mean the end of the Washington
2:20.3	Post, at least as we know it. Then, Maine governor and Senate candidate Janet Mills talks to Dan
2:26.0	about her race against Graham Platner, election security, getting ice out of Maine, and whether
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