Trump revives election fraud claims ahead of US midterms
U.S. President Donald Trump has revived sweeping and unsupported claims of voter fraud and Chinese meddling, firing a clear warning shot ahead of midterm elections that many expect him to dispute.
In a primetime White House address on July 16, Trump portrayed the U.S. electoral system as dangerously exposed and urged lawmakers to adopt new restrictions on voting, despite scant appetite for the measures even within his own Republican Party.
“We can never watch a stolen election again,” Trump said, referring to his 2020 defeat by Democrat Joe Biden.
Trump said he was declassifying intelligence that showed, among other things, that China had illicitly acquired 220 million U.S. voter files.
