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37:48Now PlayingJim Acosta sounds the alarm on what he calls an unprecedented threat to the 2026 midterm elections. After the FBI raided Georgia's Fulton County Election Office seeking ballots from Trump's 2020 loss—with DNI Tulsi Gabbard photographed at the scene—Acosta warns: "If we are not allowed to stage and conduct and hold free and fair elections in this country, then we are lost."
Six years after losing the 2020 election by 7 million votes, Trump remains obsessed with Georgia, where he famously asked Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "find 11,780 votes." Now, as president, he's deployed the FBI and his intelligence apparatus to election offices. Acosta asks the fundamental question: "In what world is that normal?"
Key moments:
● Why Tulsi Gabbard's presence at the raid should "send a chill down all of our spines"
● How Kash Patel removed the FBI's Atlanta special agent before the raid
● Trump's continued false claims about winning Minnesota "three times"
● The comparison: What if Obama had done this?
● Direct challenges to Marco Rubio, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski
● Why Democrats should consider shutting down the government over election interference
● "The only world in which this is normal is Vladimir Putin's world"
Acosta frames this as "the whole ball game"—warning that election officials across the country must now wonder if Gabbard and "Kash Patel's goons" can show up at their doors at any moment. He calls on "all good Americans, all patriotic Americans, right, left, or center" to ensure the 2026 midterms are held "fair and square."
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