Trump muses canceling 2026 midterms in alarming GOP retreat remarks

President Donald Trump stunned Republicans at a closed-door House GOP retreat by openly musing about canceling the 2026 midterm elections, a move experts have long warned he might entertain. Speaking at the Kennedy Center on the anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Trump complained about facing Democrats at all and suggested elections should be scrapped — before insisting the “fake news” would call him a dictator if he announced that seriously. The remarks came as Trump fretted about the historical...