President Donald Trump used false claims of fraud and foreign interference in the 2020 election to call for the passage of U.S. Sen. Mike Lee’s SAVE America Act, a bill Lee says is a priority over all other Senate business.
The bill would require people to provide evidence of citizenship when registering to vote. but experts say it could make it harder for people who are eligible to vote to do so and it reinforces conspiracy theories about the security of U.S. elections. The bill has been a central plank of Lee’s policy platform in recent years.
“The only reason you wouldn’t do it is you want to cheat because your policies are so bad and your candidates are so pathetic that you can’t get away or can’t get elected any other way,” Trump said Thursday night of the bill.
Trump claimed that China had tried to influence the 2020 president election, which Trump lost, and that U.S. officials worked to cover up the alleged foreign meddling. Though the White House released documents to back up the claims, The New York Times reported they did not reveal any new information about foreign influence in American elections or election system insecurities.
Lee, who is Utah’s longest-serving federal delegate, cheered the speech repeatedly on social media and pushed for the Senate to take up the bill immediately.
“Should we ask China how many noncitizens are registered to vote in America? China knows why we need the SAVE America Act,” Lee wrote on X. “For that very reason, China doesn’t...
US President Donald Trump resurrected long-debunked claims about fraud and foreign interference in the 2020 election, alleging in a July 16, 2026 primetime address that China stole millions of vote...