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The speech marks the president\u2019s latest push to deny his 2020 election loss and rally support for stricter voter ID and citizenship rules.<\/strong><\/p>

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President Donald Trump, shown in the Oval Office on Monday. (Aaron Schwartz\/Pool\/FTWP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

The White House promised <\/b>major revelations in President Donald Trump\u2019s prime-time address on election security Thursday while Democrats warned against false and misleading allegations and some Republicans hoped to focus on voters\u2019 bigger priorities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat election was a closed issue back in 2020,\u201d Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) said Wednesday. \u201cI\u2019m not looking back into the past. I\u2019m looking to the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

The speech marked the president\u2019s latest push to deny his 2020 election loss and rally support for stricter voter ID and citizenship rules. For months, multiple federal agencies have been reexamining law enforcement files and voting records pursuing claims of fraud that were previously investigated and rejected.<\/p>\n

People briefed on the speech said it included allegations of Chinese influence efforts. Officials in 2020 uniformly said there was no evidence of altered votes or compromised systems even as they disagreed on China\u2019s intentions and activities.<\/p>\n

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt rejected criticism that the president should be focused on voters\u2019 priorities, such as the economy. She added that advisers discussed addressing other subjects such as the Iran war and the economy.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe sometimes is thinking about these things up until he walks out,\u201d she said. \u201cThe administration, and especially this president, are able to walk and chew gum at the same time and tackle a number of issues on a number of different subjects every single day.\u201d<\/p>\n

NBC, ABC and CNN said they would stream the speech and cover it on their news broadcast but would not interrupt their regular prime-time programming. CBS and Fox had not announced coverage decisions ahead of the speech.<\/p>\n

The White House requested airtime, two people familiar with the matter said, and Leavitt had urged networks to carry the speech, calling election security \u201cvery near and dear to the hearts of many Americans across the country.\u201d She said <\/b>Americans would be \u201crelieved\u201d to hear the president\u2019s message.<\/p>\n

Democrats warned that Trump\u2019s focus on 2020 was actually preparation to undermine or challenge the 2026 election results.<\/p>

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\u201cThe world\u2019s most famous sore loser will deliver a prime-time presidential sour-grapes address to pursue his six-year-old grievances about the 2020 election while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control and the cost of living continues to rise for Americans across the country,\u201d Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Georgia) told reporters ahead of the speech on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s laying the groundwork for a potential challenge to the result \u2014 another bad-faith challenge.”<\/p>\n

Democrats <\/b>also said Trump\u2019s preoccupation with his loss six years ago would cost him with voters, who increasingly disapprove<\/a> of his handling of the Iran war and the economy.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis whole scheme is just going to backfire on him,\u201d Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) said. \u201cHe\u2019ll be worse off tomorrow after he gives this speech than tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

The White House briefed right-wing allies and media figures on the findings on Monday, fueling online hype that included speculation Trump would go so far as to declare Georgia\u2019s Democratic senators illegitimate or release new evidence of Chinese meddling.<\/p>\n

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, shown Thursday, rejected criticism that the president should be focused on voters\u2019 priorities, such as the economy. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson\/AP Photo\/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Officials have known for years that China accessed voter files, but those are publicly available records, said Rachel Cohen, a spokeswoman for Senate Intelligence Committee vice chair Mark Warner (D-Virginia). Intelligence agencies publicly disclosed in 2021 that China considered \u2014 but did not go through with \u2014 trying to influence the outcome of the 2020 election. Some officials believed China may have taken some steps to undermine Trump, according to the spy agencies\u2019 March 2021 report<\/a>, but they still agreed with the conclusion that no votes were changed.<\/p>\n

That view was shared by John Ratcliffe, who served as Trump\u2019s director of national intelligence in 2020 and now leads the CIA. He and other senior Trump administration officials suggested before the election that China was a larger threat than Russia. They took issue with the intelligence community\u2019s assessment before the November 2020 election that Moscow had a preference for Trump, according to former U.S. officials.<\/p>\n

\u201dI know my conclusions are right, based on the intelligence that I see,\u201c Ratcliffe said, according to a January 2021 report to Congress by an analytic ombudsman for intelligence agencies. \u201dMany analysts think I am going off the script. They don\u2019t realize that I did it based on the intelligence.”<\/p>

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Theodoric Meyer and Scott Nover contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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