Alex Padilla: “I’m Sen. Alex Padilla.”

This lawsuit has no legal basis or evidence behind it and is nothing more than a blatant abuse of power designed to sow distrust in our elections and threaten Americans’ right to vote.

We will fight this illegal overreach every step of the way.

Still, this incident is a stark reminder of the very real dangers facing those who serve the public and who help administer our elections in the face of increasingly hostile political rhetoric — especially from Donald Trump.

Their only hope for trying to maintain any sense of power is to interfere. It’s to change the rules. It’s to rig the elections.