Protecting our elections from military interference

This week, I called on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine to publicly confirm that the U.S. military will play no role in this November’s elections. President Donald Trump has stated he would not rule out sending ICE or the military to the polls in November.

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The uniformed military shouldn't be deployed to interfere in our elections. Period. It’s why I introduced the Protect Our Polls Act, which would block President Trump from sending federal law enforcement or uniformed military to interfere in elections.

The nonpartisan tradition of military service and the constitutional guardrails that prevent our military from becoming a domestic police force for one political party are essential to maintaining our democracy.

Our nation’s senior-most defense and security leaders are the final failsafe for our democracy. As one constitutional scholar put it, “If a president is truly determined to make himself a dictator, the question at the end of the day is whether the military and other force-deploying agencies of the Federal government are willing to go along.”

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Read more about my work on protecting our elections here.