US President Donald Trump will give a national address on Thursday night about newly declassified intelligence on investigations into US elections and what the White House says are voting machine vulnerabilities, an administration official told Reuters on Monday.
The Republican president could use his televised speech to again press his false claim that he lost the 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden due to massive fraud.
Numerous courts, ballot audits and his first-term Justice Department found no evidence of such fraud, including vote-machine rigging. The federal cybersecurity watchdog joined other federal, state and local officials in declaring the vote "the most secure in American history".
Propelled by Trump's repeated claims that US elections are “rigged”, the administration has for over a year sought to increase federal oversight of election administration and reshape the way Americans vote – an effort that legal experts say would take power away from states in violation of the US Constitution.
With Republican control of Congress at stake in the November midterm elections, Democrats and some election security experts have expressed concerns that the Trump administration plans to interfere in those contests.
By casting the 2020 election as illegitimate, Trump is laying the groundwork to challenge Republican losses and undermine Democrats if they win back power in Congress in November, multiple election experts have said.
The administration official, who discussed...
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