'Deranged' new Trump threat jolts observers: 'Start taking his comments seriously'

President Donald Trump bemoaned the possibility of Republicans losing control of their congressional majorities and mused about canceling the midterm elections to prevent that from happening in a new interview, raising alarms for numerous observers.

The 79-year-old president spoke to Reuters, which reported that Trump expressed frustration that the Republican Party could lose their majorities in the the U.S. House of Representatives or the Senate in the November midterms, pointing to the...