Some fear the impact could go well beyond this November’s vote and see the move as part of the president’s grander scheme to wrest control of elections from states.
Hours before President Donald Trump delivered a primetime address brimming with debunked conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential vote, his Department of Justice (DOJ) unveiled a new website tracking state-by-state efforts to supposedly protect American elections.
According to Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) Trump’s speech was less about foreign interference in U.S. elections, and more about the president’s own interference.
President Donald Trump’s primetime speech Thursday was billed in advance as the moment when he was finally going to provide support for his claims of election theft, and perhaps move to take control of voting once and for all.
President Trump’s address to the nation on elections was previously on course to sound a lot more dangerous than it ended up being.
Many election chiefs were gathered in South Dakota for a conference to discuss preparations for the midterm elections when Trump delivered his address to the nation.
In a tirade against elections Thursday night, President Donald Trump ordered FBI Director Kash Patel to reopen an investigation into long-debunked anti-voting claims against a voter registration drive in Michigan in the lead-up to the 2020 election.
President Donald Trump used a primetime address to resurrect debunked claims about the 2020 election, allege sweeping foreign interference and pressure Congress to pass the anti-voting SAVE America Act.
The timing of the address and leaks to the media — as well as the Trump administration’s recent actions — offer clues about what the president may try to accomplish.
The president said he talked to Graham about the bill hours before his death.