'Grave risks': Senior Republican sounds alarm that Trump could be leading party to defeat

Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is calling on President Donald Trump to abandon a law passed by executive order in a scathing column published in the Wall Street Journal.

The 83-year-old politician — who has frequently criticized Trump since stepping down as the Republican leader in the Seante, hammered the president over recent executive orders regarding election integrity. "The administration’s executive order on voting and election integrity risks setting them back," he wrote.

He noted Executive Order 14248, which Trump signed last month, "carries grave risks" and will face constitutional scrutiny because authority to oversee elections rests in state capitols and not within the Federal Government.

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The six-time elected senator then opined how this executive order could lead to Democrats taking back power in the federal government in the midterm elections.

"Even a targeted federal mandate to strengthen election integrity today could make it easier for a future Democratic president and Congress to use more sweeping mandates to carry out a complete federal takeover of American elections," he wrote.

He lastly slammed Trump for his attempt to "tilt the electoral playing field in their favor. The current administration has better ways to spend its time than laying the groundwork for a leftwing election takeover."