Donald Trump's administration just took an action that "hints" about future ambitions for a total electoral takeover by Republicans, a former federal prosecutor said Thursday.
It was recently reported that the FBI and DNI Secretary Tulsi Gabbard swarmed an election field office in Georgia, purportedly to investigate the 2020 election in which Joe Biden defeated the incumbent Trump. Trump has long held that he won that election, which he says was "rigged" against him despite him being president at the time, so there has been a lot of speculation about what he might hope to accomplish with that raid.
According to ex-prosecutor Joyce Vance, "the Fulton County search warrant and its implications for the 2026 and future elections is the most important news out there right now and not getting the coverage it merits."
In a post on Substack, the attorney wrote, "The most important question in 2026 is whether the midterm elections will be free and fair. And these developments go to the heart of that."
Vance notes that "it’s highly unlikely the investigation will turn up any vote count fraud connected to the 2020 election results in Fulton County" because of how many times the ballots have been recounted. Still, she said, if a case is spawned from this search, then there should be questions asked about potential ballot manipulation by DOJ.
"If DOJ does come up with a case based on the evidence it seized, it will be legitimate to raise concerns about the integrity of the ballots and other documents after they were seized and came into the custody of the Justice Department," the analyst wrote. "That would have been unthinkable, regardless of which party was in the White House, just a few years ago. But the Trump administration has amassed quite a record for lying to and deceiving courts and not following their orders. It would be irresponsible to avoid hard questions about their work product, given what has taken place during the last year."
After flagging a number of "unusual" developments connected to the raid, Vance said, "What’s happening in Fulton County tells us a lot about how and why Trump’s personal law firm, formerly known as the Justice Department, is operating in anticipation of the midterm elections. It hints at why, more than five years after Trump lost the 2020 election, he’s back at the Big Lie again. Fulton County leans heavily Democratic, and its vote is very important in purple-ish Georgia."
She further added, "Trump is famous for caring only about the investigation and not what comes of it. Here, an investigation, no matter its lack of merit, might be seized upon as justification for the state to divest the county of control of its elections."
Vance then continued:
"That’s the fear, that this is Trump’s roadmap for corrupting elections in 2026 and beyond, by casting results into doubt, seizing ballots, making more ridiculous claims about fraud in Georgia and beyond, and parlaying them into Republican control of election machinery... There are good reasons for concern."
According to the ex-DOJ lawyer, "If Trump gets away with seizing Fulton County’s ballots from the 2020 election, there is no reason to believe it will stop there. He will try to do it everywhere he thinks it might benefit him. For him, it’s not about the will of the voters; it’s about what he wants."