President Donald Trump on Thursday night used a historically stunning primetime address to peddle unfounded conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election, taking a major political risk as Republicans fight for their congressional majorities and conjuring warnings from Democrats about November’s midterms.
Trump appeared eager to sow doubt about the results of November’s midterm elections a day after his vice president, JD Vance, said the administration would accept the outcome of congressional races. Trump tied his new allegations about the midterms to his recent aggressive push for Congress to send him the SAVE America Act, a package of GOP-crafted election restrictions that Senate leaders have told him cannot pass their chamber.