President Donald Trump is set to address the nation on topics including elections and voting machines, suggesting he may revisit unproven claims about Republican losses, particularly his own in 2020.
Election Integrity
Trump’s fixation on his loss to Democrat Joe Biden six years ago and the long-debunked theories he’s circulated about it are things he still brings up regularly when discussing other subjects.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said earlier that President Trump will deliver a major address to the nation on protecting the integrity of our elections and encouraged every American to tune in.
Leavitt didn’t offer many details but said that what the president planned to say “will shock you if you have an honest eye listening to the president tonight” and will make the case that the U.S. will “need to make some adjustments moving forward,” including a strict voter ID bill he has been pushing.
Response from Democrats
Democrats warned that Trump was trying to revive false claims of past stolen elections in order to delegitimize the upcoming 2026 midterm elections, in which Trump’s Republican Party is facing headwinds.
Virginia Democratic Sen. Mark Warner said in a statement that “Trump is going to use a primetime address to stoke misleading claims about our elections in order to justify interfering in our midterms.”
Original reporting: NBC Connecticut (Hartford) — read the source article.
