Trump's dark warning on U.S. elections: 4 takeaways
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President Trump cast American elections as under siege Thursday night, describing a system riddled with vulnerabilities that hostile foreign actors and unauthorized immigrants are exploiting.
Driving the news: Trump's dark, foreboding 25-minute address from the East Room of the White House served two main purposes:
Trump, citing newly released "raw" intelligence , claimed that China carried out "the largest compromise of election data in history" during the 2020 election — obtaining 220 million U.S. voter files (there weren't quite that many registered voters in the U.S. then) and creating "ballots for Biden."
But many of those documents , which the White House posted online during the speech, are more circumspect in outlining China's role than Trump claimed. "Raw" intelligence isn't the same as vetted intelligence.
2 . Unauthorized immigrants on voting roles
3. "Shocking vulnerabilities" in voting systems
4. Setting the table for November, and 2028
Friction point : Some in Trump's political operation believe that talking about voter fraud will motivate his voters to turn out in November. But outside of the White House, party leaders and pollsters strongly believe that swing voters don't want to hear about it.
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