Escalating Threats to Midterm Elections, Bannon Says Trump Will ‘Have ICE Surround the Polls’
“This is a red alert moment,” said Sen. Ed Markey. “We have to start working to protect polling places from Trump’s paramilitary ICE goons before it’s too late.”
Days after President Donald Trump suggested that Republicans should “nationalize the voting” in Democratic districts, his former White House adviser telegraphed another way Trump may seek to prevent a free and fair election later this year: illegally flooding polling places with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
“You’re damn right we’re gonna have ICE surround the polls come November,” Bannon said on his War Room podcast on Tuesday.
“We’re not gonna sit here and allow you to steal the country again,” he continued. “And you can whine and cry and throw your toys out of the pram all you want, but we will never again allow an election to be stolen.”
Steve Bannon: “We‘re gonna have ICE surround the polls…We’ll never again allow an election to be stolen.” pic.twitter.com/9R9tZdolHx
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) February 4, 2026
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BANNON: We're never going to allow to happen what happened in 2020; it's the biggest crime this country has ever had!
All these endless fiascos go back to the chaos makers of the STOLEN ELECTION. IT'S NOT HAPPENING AGAIN. Yes, you're going to have ICE around the ballot boxes; I… pic.twitter.com/7GrbnboWVS
— Bannon’s WarRoom (@Bannons_WarRoom) February 4, 2026