President Donald Trump’s staff convinced him to tone down the primetime speech he gave on election integrity Thursday evening, after critics alleged it would make false claims about “stolen” elections. Leading up to the address, Democrats such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) demanded TV networks censor the spee
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President Donald Trump’s staff convinced him to tone down the primetime speech he gave on election integrity Thursday evening, after critics alleged it would make false claims about “stolen” elections. Leading up to the address, Democrats such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) demanded TV networks censor the spee
President Donald Trump’s staff convinced him to tone down the primetime speech he gave on election integrity Thursday evening, after critics alleged it would make false claims about “stolen” elections. Leading up to the address, Democrats such as Rep. During his primetime speech on Thursday, President Trump outlined alleged Chinese efforts to collect voter data and repeated disproven claims about voting by noncitizens.
Weijia Jiang and CBS News election law contributor David Becker have more on the president's claims. Trump revived long-debunked theories regarding the 2020 elections in a primetime speech.
CBS News reported the story as "Fact-checking Trump's claims about election security during his primetime speech." Washington Examiner reported the story as "Trump’s team talked him out of making ‘crazier’ claims in voting security speech: Report."
3 sources have covered this story, including Washington Examiner, CBS News and Al Jazeera English. The earliest reporting in the cluster landed about 7 hours ago.
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