{"id":16253,"date":"2026-01-08T22:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=16253"},"modified":"2026-01-08T22:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:00:27","slug":"why-trump-isnt-joking-about-canceling-midterms-congressman-seth-moulton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=16253","title":{"rendered":"Why Trump Isn\u2019t Joking About Canceling Midterms: Congressman Seth Moulton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"main-article\">\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The success of President Donald Trump\u2019s shocking raid in Venezuela will likely embolden him to \u201cdisrupt\u201d the midterm elections on his home turf this year, a Democratic congressman warned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton told <i>The Daily Beast Podcast <\/i>that Trump\u2019s earlier remarks about messing with the midterms are \u201cabsolutely a possibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"Oembed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"Oembed b-article-body__embed-responsive\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" data-testid=\"oembed-container\">\n<div><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tKoZDi_oQio?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Tuesday, the 79-year-old president joked about canceling the midterms as he took the stage at the Kennedy Center for the House Republican retreat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI won\u2019t say \u2018Cancel the election, they should cancel the election,\u2019 because the fake news will say, \u2018He wants the elections canceled. He\u2019s a dictator.\u2019 They always call me a dictator,\u201d Trump said mockingly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">For Moulton, however, the quip shouldn\u2019t be brushed off as a joke\u2014especially after U.S. forces launched air strikes in Venezuela and captured its president, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, in a surprise operation in the early hours on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI would go further and say, most likely scenario [is] that he tries to disrupt the midterms, cancel them, delay them, whatever else. I mean, this is a guy who just took Maduro out of Venezuela,\u201d he told host Joanna Coles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Moulton, 47, pointed out that Trump didn\u2019t replace the long-sitting autocrat with the leader of Venezuela\u2019s opposition. Instead of naming Nobel Peace Prize winner and opposition figurehead Mar\u00eda Corina Machado as the South American nation\u2019s new president, Trump installed Maduro loyalist Delcy Rodriguez as the interim leader.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"c-media-item b-article-body__image\"><figcaption class=\"c-media-item__fig-caption\"><span class=\"c-media-item__caption\">Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez has been named acting president after Nicol\u00e1s Maduro was seized. <\/span><span class=\"c-media-item__credit\">JUAN BARRETO\/AFP via Getty Images <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019d be very tough for her to be the leader [because she] doesn\u2019t have the support or the respect within the country,\u201d Trump said of Machado. But two White House insiders later told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2026\/01\/04\/us-venezuela-plan-trump-rubio-miller\/\" rel=\"\">The Washington Post<\/a> that Trump was offended when Machado accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, which he had openly coveted for months in a campaign that cast him as \u201cthe Peace President\u201d who had supposedly ended eight wars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cSo out of personal jealousy, he did not reflect the will of the Venezuelan people,\u201d Moulton said. \u201cAnd now he\u2019s saying, \u2018Oh, well, we just need to be in charge for a while. They shouldn\u2019t have elections until things simmer down.\u2019 That sounds to me like a trial run of what he can use.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"c-media-item b-article-body__image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado gestures to supporters during an official campaign kickoff rally ahead presidential election on July 4, 2024 in Caracas, Venezuela.\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/YL32WW2XOVBUTCKYZJ47WBJ5H4.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><figcaption class=\"c-media-item__fig-caption\"><span class=\"c-media-item__caption\">Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize over Donald Trump. <\/span><span class=\"c-media-item__credit\">Marcelo Perez del Carpio\/Getty Images <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/clip\/white-house-event\/president-trump-quips-about-canceling-2028-elections-if-us-is-at-war\/5170008\" rel=\"\">August<\/a>, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky explained during an Oval Office meeting with Trump that they were unable to hold elections due to the war with Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cSo you mean if we happen to be in a war with somebody, no more elections?\u201d Trump quipped. \u201cI wonder what the fake news is gonna say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Moulton mused that \u201cmaybe this is part of why he\u2019s starting so many wars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Since returning to the White House last year, Trump has ordered strikes in Venezuela, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trump-confirms-us-attack-on-three-nuclear-sites-in-iran\/\" rel=\"\">Iran<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/no-new-wars-trump-boasts-he-bombed-somalia\/\" rel=\"\">Somalia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trump-launches-airstrikes-on-yemen-that-kill-at-least-24\/\" rel=\"\">Yemen<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/donald-trump-wishes-merry-christmas-to-nigerian-terrorists-he-claims-he-just-killed\/\" rel=\"\">Nigeria<\/a>. He has also repeatedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/sleepless-donad-ltrump-79-threatens-new-war-in-late-night-rage-post\/\" rel=\"\">threatened<\/a> further military action against foreign targets in late-night Truth Social rampages. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cSo I think we should take this deadly seriously,\u201d Moulton said. \u201cAnd if there\u2019s one lesson I\u2019ve learned from Donald Trump over two terms, is that when he says he\u2019s going to do something bad, he almost always does something worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"c-media-item b-article-body__image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"President Donald Trump\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/XXEWMCCLZVBX7ERTJX56UOWWGY.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><figcaption class=\"c-media-item__fig-caption\"><span class=\"c-media-item__caption\">President Donald Trump joked about canceling the midterms as he addressed a House Republican retreat. <\/span><span class=\"c-media-item__credit\">Alex Wong\/Getty Images <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The White House responded by accusing Moulton of having Trump Derangement Syndrome, a made-up illness that supposedly inflicts the president\u2019s critics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cSeth Moulton\u2019s TDS has tragically reached such an advanced stage that he decided to go on the Daily Beast podcast to defend an illegitimate dictator and indicted narcoterrorist while spewing gibberish conspiracy theories to the show\u2019s two listeners. Sad!\u201d spokesperson Abigail Jackson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AURLFQdDtLA\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AURLFQdDtLA\">last episode<\/a> of <i>The Daily Beast Podcast<\/i>, released Monday, garnered over 241,000 views on YouTube alone.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><i><b>New episodes of The Daily Beast Podcast are released every Monday, Wednesday and Sunday on <\/b><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@thedailybeast\" rel=\"\"><i><b>YouTube<\/b><\/i><\/a><i><b>. 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