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President Donald Trump delivered a prime-time speech about election security on Thursday night. While he largely refrained from repeating past statements about the 2020 election being stolen, the 25-minute speech covered topics ranging from foreign election influence to voting by illegal immigrants and the validity of mail-in voting.
Ashley Dowdney is a Dispatch intern from Asheville, North Carolina. She graduated in 2026 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a double major in Classics and Peace, War, & Defense. When she isn’t writing, you’ll find her running, making some new fermented food, and maybe even evangelizing about 19th century literature.
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