‘Stranger things have happened’: Trump coy on calling midterm-elections emergency

President Trump on Tuesday left the door open to declaring a national security emergency and federalizing control over the November midterms. Conservative commentator Wayne Root suggested during an interview with Trump that the president could declare a national emergency if the…

The president’s cryptic response to the idea of declaring a national security emergency ahead of the November elections gives oxygen to a call coming from his boosters in the right-wing media.