Trump accuses Schumer of trying to 'interfere in our elections' with latest strategy

RNC senior advisor Danielle Alvarez analyzes the escalating midterm election battle between Democrats and Republicans.

The partisan battle overmidterm electionsis heating up in Washington. D.C., with accusations flying that both sides are trying to rig the outcome in November.

Republicans are trying to hold on to their majority in both chambers, while Democrats are trying to pounce on sluggish legislating, infighting. rising costs in their quest to take over the House, Senate or both.

And PresidentDonald Trumpis already accusing Democrats of election interference months before Election Day.

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President Donald Trump accused Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.,. Democrats of trying to "interfere in our elections" with their newly launched election integrity task force.(Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

"The Democrats are totally unhinged,. we will not allow them to threaten the integrity of our Elections," Trump said on Truth Social.

Senate Minority LeaderChuck Schumer,D-N.Y.,. Democrats recently launched a "free and fair elections task force" that would recruit the likes of former Attorney General Eric Holder and Marc Elias, who Trump charged was "a terrible lawyer with a horrible track record."

"Palestinian Chuck Schumer is hiring Eric Holder, famous for handing guns to Mexican cartels under the Barack Hussein Obama administration, as part of a Democrat-led ‘Election Integrity Group’ that will no doubt try to suppress Republican voters,. interfere in our Elections," Trump said on Truth Social.

Schumer. Senate Democrats debuted the elections task force as Republicans struggle to move forward on voter ID and citizenship verification legislation, and on the heels of theSupreme Court’s redistricting decisionthat is expected to further crank up the redistricting arms race across the country.

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Voters arrive at a polling location at the Burton Barr Central Library on Nov. 5, 2024, in Phoenix.(Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

"Donald Trump. the Republicans realize that if the election were held fairly, that the likelihood is that they would lose, and we would win, that we would take back the House, take back the Senate," Schumer said.

"So they are doing all kinds of nefarious things, some of them legal, some of them not so legal, to try. overturn a fair result in an election," he continued.

Schumer described the task force’s mission as seeking out "election threats," including actions at the administrative level by the Department of Justice (DOJ) andDepartment of Homeland Security(DHS), attacks on the First Amendment, foreign threats. militarization of law enforcement at the polls.

Trump countered that in the 2024 election cycle. Republicans mounted an "Election Integrity Army in every single State to preserve the sanctity of each legal vote."

"We will be doing the same again in 2026, but it will be much bigger and stronger," Trump said. "All Americans should have their voices be heard by casting a vote. Be assured this Election will be fair!"

Its inception is in response to what Democrats say is a "comprehensive effort" by Trump. his administration toundermine the upcoming election,particularly through efforts to pass the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act.

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The SAVE America Act, or a version of it pushed by Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., failed last month when four Republicans joined Democrats to kill it.(Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Trump has strongly pushed Republicans to pass the SAVE America Act, which would create federal voter ID laws, require proof of citizenship to register to vote. share information on voter rolls with DHS. Democrats say the legislation would disenfranchise millions of Americans.

But Republicans aren’t unified behind the legislation. The SAVE America Act, or a version of it pushed by Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., failed last month when four Republicans joined Democrats to kill it.

He has alsocalled on Republicans to nationalizeelections,. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin didn’t rule out sending federal immigration agents to polling places in the fall during his confirmation hearing earlier this year.White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt earlier this year pushed back against whether Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents would head to the polls come November, and said "that's not something I've ever heard the president consider."

"I haven't heard the president discuss any formal plans to put ICE outside of polling locations," Leavitt said.

It’s part of what Democrats charge is a concerted effort to tip the scales in the upcoming elections.

"Donald Trump doesn't think he did too much in 2020 to steal the election," Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said. "He thinks he did too little,. so that's why you are seeing, already, a comprehensive effort to try torig and steal the fallelection."

Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.