Trump called ‘irresponsible and dangerous’ over election commission firings - US politics live

Politicians and advocates say dismissals are ‘deeply concerning and part of president’s ‘relentless efforts to interfere with elections’

• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/09/trump-fires-election-commissioners">Trump fires last members of election commission, inciting fears of midterm ‘chaos’

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The Trump administration has been branded “irresponsible and dangerous” after the president terminated the remaining members of the independent, federal commission (EAC) that assists election administration officials nationwide.

Victor Marx, a marines veteran, pastor and self-described “high-risk missionary”, whose extraordinary claims about his past have been disputed and mocked, won the Republican primary for Colorado governor.

State senator Barbara Kirkmeyer conceded the race, despite losing by just fewer than 2,500 votes.

Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, said her government will ask state and federal prosecutors in the United States to file criminal charges against the people responsible for the deaths of 17 Mexican citizens targeted ⁠during anti-immigration operations or while in immigration detention centers.

A Mexican immigrant who was fatally shot by a federal immigration agent during a traffic stop in Houston on Tuesday was not the man federal officers were searching for, the Department of Homeland Security said.

Morris Katz, Zohran Mamdani’s 27-year-old media strategist, who has been blamed by many Democrats for helping to recruit Graham Platner to run for the https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-senate">US Senate in Maine and made ads for the campaign, distanced himself from the candidate.

Troy Jackson, a former president of the Maine state senate who hopes to replace Graham Platner as the Democratic nominee for https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-senate">US Senate, if Platner makes good on his promise to formally withdraw by the Monday deadline, said in an interview with MS Now that Platner had lied to him.

Dan Kleban, a co-founder of the Maine Beer Company, https://dankleban.substack.com/p/dan-kleban-i-wont-vote-for-chuck?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=6358585&post_id=206328925&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1eki7&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email">wrote on Substack on Thursday that he would not vote for Chuck Schumer as the party’s Senate leader next year should he win the nomination and be elected.