Sen. Baldwin discusses election security with Dane Co. officials
Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin) and Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell discuss the process election officials use to test voting machines ahead of the 2026 midterms. (Photo by Henry Redman/Wisconsin Examiner) President Donald Trump knows the midterm elections are shaping up to go poorly for him and the Republican party so he’s trying to cast as much doubt about the country’s election systems as possible, U.S. Tammy Baldwin said at an event Monday morning. Meeting with three Madison-area election officials, Baldwin noted that Trump made 107 false claims about the results of the 2020 election in the six months from December 2025 to May of this year while taking a number of actions to restrict voting or discredit election systems ahead of the November election. Supreme Court recently struck down Trump’s proposed executive order to limit the ability of the U.S.