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President Trump's primetime address last night, where he continued his campaign to cast doubt on the 2020 election he lost and the 2026 midterms he fears losing.
He did it by making a series of misleading claims and citing dated intelligence that failed to demonstrate any votes were actually compromised.
Senior political correspondent Rachel Scott is at the White House with the latest.
Good morning, Rachel.
>> George, good morning to you. And
Republicans on Capitol Hill were hoping the president would focus on immigration, on the economy, issues they believe will be important to voters this midterm election.
But instead, the president came before the American people to talk about an election that he lost six years ago, using unfounded claims to demand sweeping changes ahead of the midterms.
With the midterm elections just 4 months away, President Trump taking to the podium in primetime to sow doubt in America's election system, making misleading claims about the election he lost 6 years ago.
>> No country can be great without fair and honest elections.
You have to trust your country.
>> In a 25-minute speech, the president making extraordinary and vague claims that officials he appointed in his first administration were part of a cover-up to keep information about foreign interference and election fraud away from him, arguing newly released documents would show efforts by China to interfere in our elections and exposed flaws in the voting system.
>> They're vulnerable and they're easily compromised and
people within our government knew that.
>> But the president provided no evidence that the outcome or any votes were altered in the 2020 election.
And his claims deeply contradict the assessments his own intelligence officials gave him in 2021, that China did not attempt to influence the presidential election outcome.
Trump lost in 2020 by 7 million votes.
He lost the Electoral College and lost more than 60 court cases challenging the election, some in front of judges he appointed.
And there's no evidence of widespread voter fraud, something his own attorney general at the time acknowledged.
Still the president has been fixated on unfounded claims of voter fraud, demanding Congress pass the Save America Act, a sweeping voter ID bill, alleging his administration found more than 275,000 non-citizens on the voting rolls.
But at no point did the president prove people cast ballots who shouldn't have.
Election officials across the country quickly responding. Nevada Secretary of State saying there are numerous protections in place to prevent non-citizens from casting a ballot.
And in Pennsylvania, the Republican Secretary of State telling the New York Times, "All evidence has shown that non-citizen voting is extremely rare across the country, including in Pennsylvania."
Democrats warning that President Trump is laying the groundwork for challenging future election results.
>> He's laying the foundation to be able to tell America after election day that the election was corrupt and therefore should not be respected.
>> We just got word from both China and Russia. They're rejecting the claims that the president made last night. As
he closed his speech, he demanded that Republicans on Capitol Hill pass the Save America Act.
This is his voter ID bill, which would require proof of citizenship to register to vote.
It would also severely restrict mail-in voting.
But the president does not have the votes to get this through Congress.
And what's more, that bill does nothing to address what the president spent most of his time focused on last night, these allegations of foreign election interference, which again, his own intelligence agencies at the time said was just simply not true, George.
And Rachel, at the same time the president also focused on profits, his media company announcing plans to profit from the president's social media posts.
>> Yes, George.
The president's media company will now sell quicker access to President Trump's social media posts on his social media platform Truth Social.
Users will be able to pay for immediate access to what the president says.
The president has a history of announcing major things on Truth Social, from military action to domestic and foreign policy, trade deals, long before we even get an official statement from the White House.
House. And that's what has watchdog groups particularly concerned that this could give another way for President Trump to profit off of the presidency,
George.
>> Right, because so many of those posts have also been about companies the president is invested in.
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