On Sunday, May 10, 2026, President Trump said on Truth Social that Republicans will deploy an 'Election Integrity Army' in every state for the 2026 midterms, one “much bigger and stronger” than in 2024. The post responded to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's announcement in April that Democrats were forming an election integrity task force with former Attorney General Eric Holder and election lawyer Marc Elias. Trump wrote that the Democratic group “will no doubt try to suppress Republican voters, and interfere in our Elections.”
Trump's exact post: “During my Historic Election in 2024, when I won every single Swing State, and decisively won both the Electoral and Popular votes by wide margins, the Republicans had 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 did not elaborate on who would be part of the 'Election Integrity Army' or how large it would be. In 2024, the RNC's 'Protect the Vote' program recruited volunteer poll watchers and lawyers for election litigation; the RNC said more than 160,000 volunteers took part.
The post came two days after Trump celebrated a separate ruling. On Friday, May 8, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that the voter-approved Democratic redistricting referendum did not follow proper procedures, and Trump wrote on Truth Social, “Huge win for the Republican Party, and America, in Virginia.” He added that the court “has just struck down the Democrats' horrible gerrymander” (see The Virginia Supreme Court Strikes Down the Voter-Approved Democratic Redistricting Referendum 4-3, Wiping Out the One Major Democratic Counter-Move in the Post-Callais Map War; for his earlier reaction to the referendum, see Trump Declares Virginia Redistricting Vote 'RIGGED' After Losing, Using Identical 2020 Language in His First Fraud Claim About a 2026 Election). The New Republic noted that Trump has himself pushed Republican-led states to redraw their maps. The post also follows other election-related actions tracked separately, including The FBI Searches the Office of L. Louise Lucas, the 82-Year-Old Virginia Democratic Leader Behind the Redistricting Referendum Trump Denounced, Four Trump Judicial Nominees Stay Silent When a Senator Asks Whether the Constitution Bars a Third Term and The DOJ Subpoenaed Fulton County for the Home Addresses and Phone Numbers of Nearly 3,000 People Who Worked the 2020 Election. A Trump-Appointed Judge Quashed It..
Schumer: “Donald Trump knows, his party knows, that they're at risk of losing this election in 2026, which is why they're working round the clock to tilt the scales unfairly in their favor.” A Marist poll the same week showed Democrats leading the generic House matchup by 10 points; polling averages put Democrats at +5.
Correction (October 2, 2026): This entry's title said the 'Election Integrity Army' post also called the Virginia Supreme Court ruling a 'huge win.' That was a separate Truth Social post on May 8, two days earlier, and the title and summary have been corrected. Statements that the post invoked debunked 2020 claims, a list of other Trump statements, and a claim that constitutional-law experts have catalogued a coordinated 2026 disruption posture were removed because this entry's sources do not support them; related events are now linked to their own entries.