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Absentee and overseas ballots are processed at the Elections Preparation Center in Atlanta on Nov. 3, 2020. (Melina Mara\/The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

There was widespread speculation<\/a> ahead of President Donald Trump\u2019s speech<\/a> Thursday night that he would use it to relitigate the 2020 election in Georgia.<\/p>

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Trump lost Georgia narrowly in 2020 to Joe Biden, and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger \u2014 both Republicans \u2014 resisted Trump\u2019s attempts to pressure them<\/a> to overturn the election. Trump was indicted in 2023<\/a> over those efforts, though the charges were later dropped.<\/p>\n

\u201cI expect the president to reheat debunked conspiracy theories about the repeatedly litigated and audited and confirmed 2020 presidential election in Georgia \u2014 an election that Donald Trump lost,\u2019 Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Georgia) told reporters ahead of the speech.<\/p>\n

But Trump never brought up Georgia during the speech. Instead, he argued that the United States needs to address election security vulnerabilities to ensure \u201cwe can never watch a stolen election again\u201d \u2014 without saying which election he believed was stolen.<\/p>

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Ossoff and other Democrats said after the speech that they believe Trump was laying the groundwork to interfere in November\u2019s midterm elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cI \u2026 heard a president signaling his unmistakable intent to attack these elections and our voting rights, just as he tried to throw out our votes and seize the presidency in 2020,\u201d Ossoff wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Read more Four takeaways from Trump\u2019s prime-time address<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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