US, July 9 -- Donald Trump's longtime friend and attorney Peter Ticktin has urged the US President to declare a national emergency before the upcoming midterm elections, claiming that the Democrats could manipulate the vote to regain control of Congress.

Ticktin, an 80-year-old Florida-based attorney who says he has been friends with Trump since their days at the New York Military Academy, believes there could be foreign intelligence through electronic voting machines.

"With the evidence that we've got, and with the evidence that would be forthcoming, that there'll be no question about it - and what these machines did. It's a surreptitious overtaking of a country," Ticktin, the 80-year-old Florida-based attorney, said.

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