2026 US midterms; Trump offers $1M rewards for voter fraud tips that lead to convictions.

Bad things happen with the vote counters, so we've got to be careful. The communists, socialists, democrats, they will cheat, they will do whatever. It's a familiar playbook for a president who's never been able to admit defeat. They have crooked elections in New Mexico, very crooked elections. Once again, Donald Trump is telling his supporters not to trust upcoming elections, just as democrats seem poised to win control of Congress. Asked if he'd respect the results. I will if they're honest elections, yeah. Exactly the kind of language Trump used in 2020, just before he lost to Joe Biden and refused to concede. Will you commit to making sure that there is a peaceful transfer of power after the election? Well, we're going to have to see what happens. You know that. This time, Trump is using the full weight of the federal government to interfere with voting. The Justice Department is dispatching 1,000 election monitors across all 50 states, the largest federal election monitoring effort in history, while Trump is offering $1 million to anyone who identifies voter fraud. The administration has also sued to stop Alaska from certifying its results if Republican Senator Daniel Sullivan loses because an independent candidate on the ballot shares the same name. I think it's illegal because it's unfair. In California, the Trump administration is trying to disqualify as many as 20,000 mail-in ballots, claiming they've been dissent to non-citizens. The point is to muddy the waters. The point is for Donald Trump to say look the courts are also rigged against us and everything is rigged against us. Even if Trump accepts the results many of his supporters won't. Sowing doubt has become a winning strategy for a president facing the prospect of another devastating loss. Jackson Prosko, Global News, Washington.