President Announces Larger Election Integrity Volunteer Program for 2026 Midterms

The president announced Sunday that the Republican National Committee will field a larger "Election Integrity Army" of volunteers in every state during the 2026 midterm elections. The statement came in a post on Truth Social and attributed the results of the 2024 election to the presence of thousands of volunteers who served as poll watchers or assisted with election litigation.

"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," the post read. The president did not specify the exact size of the planned volunteer effort or detail how participants would be recruited. The announcement was made in response to Democrats forming an election integrity task force aimed at identifying and mitigating threats to U.S. elections.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said last month that Democrats would partner with former Attorney General Eric Holder and election lawyer Marc Elias on the effort. More than 160,000 volunteers participated by signing up to serve as poll watchers on Election Day to report suspicious activity or by assisting with related litigation.

The current announcement builds on that effort. The president has long pushed for additional voting regulations including restrictions on mail-in ballots, creation of voter eligibility lists, federal voter ID requirements and changes to congressional maps in Republican-led states.

Constitutional Context The U.S.

Constitution assigns primary authority over election administration to the states. Election infrastructure experts, state audits, federal judges and members of the administration that oversaw the 2020 election found no widespread evidence of voter fraud in that contest.

Election experts have repeatedly stated that U.S. elections are secure. The latest volunteer program continues a pattern of heightened monitoring by both political parties in recent election cycles.