Ahead of the U.S. midterm elections, the Democratic Party prepares a thorough response plan in preparation for Trump's intervention.

(Washington = Yonhap News) Correspondent Park Seong-min = Ahead of the U.S. midterm elections in November, CNN reported on the 4th (local time) that the opposition Democratic Party is preparing a thorough response plan in preparation for President Donald Trump's intervention in the election.

With the prevailing view that the Democratic Party will be able to regain the majority in both the Senate and House of Representatives in this midterm election, a strategy is being drawn up to prepare for President Trump's possible 'monkey' before and after the election.

According to reports, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of the Democratic Party recently gathered senators, legal experts, and former officials to discuss specific hypothetical scenarios.

This includes President Trump deploying Department of Homeland Security agents and National Guard troops to polling places, and federal authorities confiscating ballots after announcing that voting systems were hacked by foreign hostile forces. A scenario was also discussed in which a false artificial intelligence (AI) video claiming election fraud triggered President Trump's intervention to delete eligible voters from the voter list.

Representative Schumer said, “These meetings were not just about finding ways to thwart Trump’s outrageous threats, but they were critical in imagining the many variables that Trump and his associates could make, and the loopholes that could arise in our preparations.”

The Democratic Party also began preparations in the House of Representatives, led by Representative Joe Morrell (New York).

Representative Morel has compiled 150 potential threats that could arise on and after Election Day. These include the possibility of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) appearing at polling places, or hypothetical scenarios where social media influencers spread false information that voting locations have changed.

The Democratic Party has been preparing step by step for several months. Representative Schumer launched an Election Protection Task Force in April, and Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) established a new bipartisan program in the Senate to deploy congressional monitors to polling places.

Representative Schumer even conducted a simulation exercise to interfere with the election for each situation, featuring stand-ins for key Trump administration officials, including the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), and the Attorney General.

Legal action is also being prepared. It is said that the Democratic Party's lawyers have even drafted various written materials so that they can immediately go to court when a problem arises.

The Elias Law Group, the largest forum in the United States representing the Democratic Party, is already litigating 85 election-related lawsuits in 41 states.

"If there's a threat or there's a potential lawsuit that needs to be handled, we're all ready to rush to the state right away," said Aria Branch, a partner at the law firm. "We literally have our emergency bags packed."

Non-partisan groups have also stepped up to train volunteers to monitor the election process, including counting votes and certifying election results.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) invested $25 million ahead of the midterm elections and trained 10,000 volunteers, said Deirdre Schiffeling, ACLU political director.

CNN pointed out, "This extensive, undisclosed response plan clearly shows how seriously the Democratic Party in Congress is taking the threat of federal government interference in the election."

In fact, in a recently released interview with TIME, a US current affairs weekly, President Trump said, "I've never thought about" deploying ICE agents at polling places, but regarding invoking the Insurrection Act and declaring a state of emergency, he said, "I'm not ruling out or confirming anything. I might use that (the Insurrection Act)."

Some of the hypothetical scenarios discussed by Democratic lawmakers have partially become reality.

Senate Democrats discussed in June the possibility that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) would threaten to crack down on broadcasting licenses for political content. Three months later, in September, ABC talk show host Jimmy Kimmel claimed that an interview with James Tallarico, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, was not aired because of the FCC's threats.