President Trump is being urged to take an extraordinary step: declare a national emergency and nullify the 2026 midterm elections. That is the demand in an opinion article by Jim Hoft at The Gateway Pundit, which argues that Democratic victories point to an alleged computer-driven election scheme. This is not a request for another sternly worded Republican press release.
Hoft opens with Alaska, where he reports that Democrat Jonathan S. Kreiss-Tomkins was declared the winner of the governor’s race on Friday night. The article describes him as the first Democrat to win that office since 1998 and says Senator Lisa Murkowski welcomed the result. In Hoft’s telling, the outcome in the Republican state is another reason to question the broader election.
Alaska’s ranked-choice voting system also gets a pointed mention. Hoft treats the governor’s race as part of a larger pattern of Democratic victories he considers implausible, rather than as an isolated political upset. His argument is that Republicans should stop treating those results as ordinary electoral disappointments.
The economy figures prominently in his complaint about the media. Hoft says news coverage blamed Democratic gains on economic conditions, while he points to GDP growth of 3.4%, up from 2.2% in the second quarter. His objection is straightforward: he does not buy the explanation being offered. Apparently, the economy is supposed to settle the argument before anyone asks another question.
The central allegation comes from an X account identified as Truth Is Freedom. Hoft cites its claim that the election results had a “00.15 percent chance of being legit!” He also endorses the account’s allegation that Democrats used a single mathematical formula to produce the results.
Those are allegations presented by Hoft and the account he cites. The supplied article does not lay out the underlying calculations or explain how the claimed formula establishes manipulation. It points readers toward related material while treating the accusation as the basis for demanding presidential action. That distinction matters when the proposed remedy is nullifying an election, not ordering a recount of somebody’s office supplies.
Hoft names Texas, Kansas, South Carolina and Mississippi among the states where he alleges computer algorithms were used to steal elections. He reaches back to Abraham Lincoln’s exclusion from ballots in slave states in 1860, invoking that history to frame the present dispute as a national crisis.
The article closes by asserting that President Trump knows the information and urging him to act. Election integrity deserves serious scrutiny, and voters deserve explanations they can examine. But Hoft’s demand goes considerably further: he wants emergency presidential intervention based on the election-manipulation claims he embraces.
