President's preoccupation with voting fraud claims goes back at least a decade

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• In a national address tonight, U.S. President Donald Trump revisited his long-running claims about the security of the vote in the country.
• He made a range of claims in the 27-minute speech, arguably the most shocking being the accusation that China tried to interfere in the 2020 presidential election and the American intelligence community covered it up.
• He said the White House has released documents he claims show "meddling" dating back nearly a decade.
• The president has repeatedly said he was cheated out of re-election in 2020 by widespread fraud, despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary.

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  Caroline Heldman, a political scientist at Occidental College, said the speech didn't contain "anything new" other than more unsubstantiated claims.

  "I'm left a little confused and I want that time back," Heldman told CBC News.

  She said she thinks the speech was targeted at Senate Republicans in an effort to pressure them to pass the SAVE America Act, something they're hesitant to do.

  "The reason that they're not moving on this is it's not entirely clear it's going to benefit them. In fact, it might harm them," she said.

  That's because there are more rural voters on the Republican side who would be affected by the bill if it gets rid of mail-in voting, she said. "So if he gets rid of mail-in ballots, that means that he is actually disadvantaging his political party, which is...

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