Trump accused of mounting fear-based intimidation campaign ahead of U.S. midterms

On his way to a Texas rally, the U.S. president pushed on whether he'll accept the outcome of the midterms. And you'll respect the results, whatever happens? I will if they're honest elections, yes. Fire! Donald Trump's claims of election fraud in 2020 led to political violence. Make no mistake, this election was stolen from you, from me, and from the country. And then there was this primetime address this past July. These disclosures reveal an election system so broken and so vulnerable that no one can possibly defend it. A slew of fraud allegations with scant evidence that went nowhere. Undeterred, Trump on Monday offered $1 million to election fraud tipsters, while administration officials repeatedly refused to rule out sending federal officers to the polls. The president is mounting a fear-based campaign designed to intimidate voters. And yet, Maine's Secretary of State says early voting is smashing expectations. Voters seem to be turning out in record numbers and not paying as much attention to the dangerous rhetoric coming out of the White House. In Alaska, Trump's Department of Justice filed a lawsuit laying the groundwork to challenge the results in a pivotal Senate race. Republican candidate Dan Sullivan vying against an independent with the same name. dubbed by some Decoy Dan if it is obvious after the election that confusion led to an improper and illegal result that the Alaskan system should be able to address that we run your election contrary to what they say in DC states run elections not the federal government in the face of potential federal overreach democrat and republican state officials have banded together even making this salty ad where federal is an f-word get the f out of our voter rolls get the f out of counting our ballots get the f out of our polling locations just get the f out and if they don't the states say they're ready to tackle the federal government in the courts and katie it certainly seems like some states have already uh been taking on the DOJ yeah DOJ tried to get voter rolls from 30 states deep red Utah is the latest to toss that out the lieutenant governor there questioning what the government was going to do with that sensitive data and one other thing Adrienne I've spoken to a few secretaries of state now and they've had to train election staff on how to respond if armed federal officers showed up at the polls that's something prohibited by law and something they say not that long ago was unthinkable extraordinary all right that is Katie Nicholson in Washington.