The intervention by a president to launch a preemptive challenge against a possible election result casts a new shadow over the midterms.
President Donald Trump on Friday said he ordered a Justice Department lawsuit seeking to prevent certification of Alaska’s Senate election result if the Republican incumbent loses — ramping up questions over whether he will accept midterms defeat. The extraordinary intervention by a president to launch a preemptive challenge against a possible election result casts a new shadow over the midterms.
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