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Pentagon Pete Offers a Chilling Response to Midterms Question
April 30, 2026
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Elizabeth Frantz / REUTERS/Elizabeth FrantzDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth has refused to rule out deploying troops to polling stations during November’s midterms. Hegseth, 45, was grilled on the matter during a marathon House Armed Services Committee hearing on Wednesday. Democratic Rep. Jill Tokuda pointed to comments made by President Donald Trump earlier this year, when he lamented not having sent the National Guard to seize voting machines in the wake of his 2020 election loss.
Federal law makes it a crime, punishable by up to five years in prison, to bring “troops or armed men” to a polling place. Read more at The Daily Beast.
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