Unraveling Trump Accidentally Blurts Out Secret Plan to Rig 2026

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

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🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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President Trump’s excuses for his party’s losses are getting stranger. He’s now claiming it’s all because Republicans didn’t talk about his accomplishments enough, even though the results dramatically repudiated them. But he knows there’s a problem. Sounding weirdly subdued, he just openly said Republicans should end the filibuster—to pass lots of new laws making voting a whole lot harder. Translation: The GOP’s response to the losses should be rigging the 2026 midterms. Indeed, he also openly declared that if he gets his way, Democrats will “never obtain power.” Donnie, you’re supposed to say voter suppression is about targeting “fraud,” not about locking the opposition out of power forever! We checked in with Democratic operative Jessica Post, who has extensive experience on state-level races, to see how Trump’s rigging efforts are really going. She discusses the state of his gerrymandering scheme, how that could still be a problem for Democrats, why it conversely might backfire on the GOP, and how Democrats should proceed to thwart Trump’s schemes. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
0:16.5	I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
0:31.3	President Donald Trump is still in denial about the scale of the losses his party suffered this week.
0:32.5	He's now telling people that it's all because Republicans didn't talk about his accomplishments
0:37.1	enough. But he knows there's a problem because speaking to reporters on Thursday,
0:42.4	he came right out and said Republicans should end the filibuster, not just to reopen the
0:48.0	government, but also to pass a bunch of new laws making voting a whole lot harder.
0:53.9	Translation, he wants to respond to his
0:56.3	losses by rigging the 2026 midterms. So we thought we'd check in on how Trump's efforts to
1:02.8	rig the elections, which include his pernicious gerrymandering scheme as well, actually are going.
1:09.3	We're going to work through all of it with Democratic operative Jessica
1:12.3	Post, who has many years of experience doing state-level races and is now a campaign consultant
1:17.7	at Vinka Advisors. Jessica, thanks for coming on. So happy to be here. Great to see you again, Greg.
1:24.6	So let's start with what Trump said. He was asked if Republicans should compromise
1:28.6	more with Democrats to end the shutdown. Here's his answer. Well, I think it's time for them to
1:34.7	end the filibuster and just put everybody back to work. Vote in voter ID, vote in and no mail-in
1:41.2	voting except for military, far away, and people that are very sick.
1:47.6	No, I'd like to see one day voting. I'd like to see not 65 days of voting from all over the
1:55.5	place. Now, I'd like to clean up the elections.
1:58.5	End the filibuster in order to pass national legislation, ending vote
2:03.0	by mail completely, ending early voting completely, and quote unquote cleaning up our elections.
2:09.2	Now putting that last thing aside, whatever he means by that, entirely ending vote by mail
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