WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S

President Trump says Republicans should take over elections in some places to fight corruption for which there is little if any evidence.

President Donald Trump is facing fresh legal peril over his latest efforts to sow doubt about the 2020 election, with lawyers in Georgia preparing to sue after his FBI raided an election hub last week.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune broke with the president after Trump called for the GOP to take over elections and nationalize the voting process ahead of midterms.

Trump repeated without evidence his long-running claim that U.S. elections are beset by widespread fraud.

Democrats saw hope and a turning point in Taylor Rehmer‘s victory over Republican candidate Leigh Wambsganss in a special election for Texas’s District 9 Senate seat this weekend. Democrats portrayed the win as a referendum on the Trump administration and a harbinger of a potential midterm blue wave,

Donald Trump’s social media rants have often suggested that he does not take losing very well. The same pattern appeared again Sunday morning, when the U.S. president posted three times in just seven minutes after Democrat Taylor Rehmet defeated Republican Leigh Wambsganss in the Fort Worth district by more than 14 percentage points,