Ex-liberal cable stars Jim Acosta, Joy Reid float 2026 midterm conspiracies about Trump

In less than a week two former liberal cable news stars who were essentially discarded by their former networks this year floated conspiracy theories that President Donald Trump will rig next year's midterms Ex-CNN anchor Jim Acosta and ex-MSNBC anchor Ecstasy Reid who were among the media's sharpest critics of Trump's refrain about not really losing the electoral contest openly speculated next year's midterms won't be on the level I don t think Trump intends to leave office Reid communicated far-left writer Wajahat Ali on his Substack last week I ve been very clear about that I think he intends to stay in office like Putin till he dies Whenever Democrats say to me 'this is the reason we have to coalesce for I dependably add to the end of their sentence Yeah assuming we genuinely have free and fair elections ' Reid also commented in the segment I think it s insane honestly to just assume we re going to have normal elections next year ELATION REID FLOATS SPECULATION THAT HER RACE 'ANXIETY' SURROUNDING TRUMP PLAYED ROLE IN MSNBC FIRINGReid disparaging the Republican big beautiful bill as a bulls--t bill in line with Democratic National Committee talking points cited House Republicans who supported Trump's statute in spite of their reservations about it She claimed their behavior suggested they weren't worried about being re-elected next year The way Trump is behaving he s not acting like somebody who worries that his party will lose power or that even if somehow we had normal elections and Democrats took control of either the House or the Senate he s not acting like somebody who s worried about the consequences of that she explained Last Tuesday Acosta wondered aloud to Democratic strategist James Carville if the midterms could be rigged by Trump or adviser Stephen Miller In the short word yes Carville reported in response to Acosta repeating a viewer of his Substack show asking whether they believe Trump will end up tampering with the midterm votes In the longer words very JAMES CARVILLE WARNS COUNTRY SHOULD BE ON 'HIGH ALERT' WHEN SOLICITED IF TRUMP MIGHT TRY TO RIG MIDTERMS I don t put anything past him nothing to try to call the balloting off to do anything he can Carville added He can think of things like that that that you know we can t because we re not accustomed to thinking like that We unfailingly assume there s going to be an polling This is scary s--t Acosta chimed in at one point President Trump has taken more action to restore the integrity of our elections on behalf of the American people than any president in modern history According to the Democrats voter fraud doesn t exist but clearly they are already searching for copouts preparing to lose big again in the midterms a White House spokesman explained Fox News Digital in response The far-left Reid was abruptly fired by MSNBC in February in November she reported only Democrats accept ballot results when they lose Acosta quit CNN in January after he was inquired to move from dayside services to a midnight show He once mocked Trump's vote maintains as the big cry Last month former CNN host Don Lemon didn't dismiss comedian Kathy Griffin's suggestion that the voting was also fixed I m Kathy Griffin and I do not think Trump won in a free and fair electoral process Griffin announced I believe there was tampering I don t know if it was the Elon Musk connection I don t know if it was just a inadequate good old boys in the South who didn t do you know I mean what they accuse us of You re not far off Lemon announced I mean I won t say that I disagree with you But I m an evidence person I d like to see the evidence I think something was off and especially when someone commented oh we ve got this And you know how do you know that How do we know we ve got this How do you know or I don t need your vote or anything like that It s a little bit odd In the past two midterms the sitting president's party lost control of the House In during Trump's first term Democrats won back control of the chamber for the first time since the GOP Tea Party romp in In President Joe Biden's Democrats were widely seen as overperforming but nevertheless lost control of the House to the GOP