Trump’s address is likely to cast new cloud over midterm elections
The US government’s own election security agencies under the Election Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council concluded during Trump’s first administration that the 2020 election was “the most secure in American history” and that “there is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.
In one of the first acts of his second term, Trump pardoned or commuted sentences for hundreds convicted in connection with January 6, 2021, sending a message that election violence or attempts to subvert democracy on his behalf were acceptable and above the law.
Trump’s rising drumbeat of warnings is broadening unease that he’s not just recycling claims about the 2020 election that were debunked by multiple courts, state Republicans and even his first-term administration.
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