President Donald Trump addressed the nation on Thursday, discussing topics including elections and voting machines. He pointed to declassified documents indicating that China had tampered with U.S. elections, although he did not present evidence that actual ballots were tampered with or that China altered the outcome of elections.

Election Integrity Concerns

Trump’s speech comes as Democrats warn that he is trying to revive false claims of past stolen elections in order to delegitimize the upcoming 2026 midterm elections. The president has long questioned the results of the 2020 election, which he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that Trump’s speech would make the case for the need to protect the integrity of U.S. elections, including a strict voter ID bill. At least some TV networks decided not to carry the speech live, but would air it on their streaming services.

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