How Trump’s Election Commission Purge Is Fuelling US Pessimism | Katy Balls

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“Democrats and others are saying they have fears of midterm chaos.” Amid escalating anxieties surrounding the ongoing US-Iran war, Donald Trump's deployment of new judicial powers to purge the final members of the Federal Election Commission has triggered deep panic over the midterms, says The Times’s Washington editor, Katy Balls. Katy Balls was speaking to Ed Vaizey, in for Rod Liddle, on Times Radio. Listen live every Friday to Sunday, 10am–1pm. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Listen live to Times Radio: https://www.thetimes.com/radio/live Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=timesonlinevideo Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timesandsundaytimes/ Find us on X: https://x.com/thetimes Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetimes/

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