White House plans Trump address on U.S. election changes before midterms
With November midterm campaigns intensifying, President Donald Trump is set to deliver a primetime national address on Thursday that is expected to focus on alleged problems in U.S. elections. The speech comes as Trump and his allies pursue broader efforts to reshape election rules while Democrats are favored in polls to retake the U.S. House.
Highlights
- Trump will deliver a nationally televised address Thursday at 9 p.m. ET, focusing on U.S. election changes and past election integrity claims.
- The White House has not released details about the speech content, while sources say Trump is expected to repeat unfounded claims of election fraud and foreign interference.
- Trump's timing coincides with polls showing Democrats likely to regain control of the U.S. House, increasing the political stakes ahead of the midterms.
Election agenda and Thursday speech
As first reported by CNBC, administration officials say Trump is expected to repeat his false claims about the 2020 presidential election and allege that foreign adversaries, including China, have carried out election influence operations.Trump has not detailed the full content of the speech, which is scheduled for 9 p.m. ET and marks his first formal address since early April, when he said the Iran war, which is still going on, was nearly over. Asked this week to preview the address, he says the country must "shape up" and argues that without free and fair elections, the country does not have a future.
White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt declines to discuss the substance of the remarks. In comments to CNBC, she says anonymous sources are speculating and that nobody yet knows what Trump will ultimately say.
Political stakes before the midterms
Trump has for years maintained that he was the victim of a rigged and stolen election after losing to former President Joe Biden nearly six years ago. He has also made similar claims about more recent races lost by Republicans.Giving those claims a national platform now aligns with a wider push by the president and his allies to influence how U.S. elections are run ahead of the midterms. The address also lands at a time when polling shows Democrats are favored to regain control of the U.S. House, adding to the political significance of the speech.
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