Ex-RNC Chair Warns Trump’s Emergency Talk Could Redraw Elections, Spark 'Election Hell'

Former RNC chair Michael Steele blasted Donald Trump’s suggestion to declare a national emergency to influence the upcoming midterms, calling it “simplistic stupidity” and warning it could put the U.S. on a “roller coaster to election hell.” He noted Trump’s past talk of using the Insurrection Act to control voting and tied it to broader threats—loyalists in the DOJ, attempts to change election rules and demand voter data—set against Trump’s persistent false claims that the 2020 election was stolen.