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Trump's Election Integrity Speech Lays Groundwork for Midterm Interference: Ari Berman

2026-07-17 News & Politics
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Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt In a primetime address on Thursday, President Trump accused China of meddling in U.S. elections in his latest effort to spread doubt about the U.S. voting system ahead of the midterm elections in November. Trump announced he was declassifying documents that show what he called "shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure," but offered no evidence that China or any other country directly interfered with recent elections. "If Trump was trying to build … a smoking gun case that the 2020 election was stolen, he failed miserably," says Ari Berman, the national voting rights correspondent for _Mother Jones_. "I am still very concerned that this speech is intended to lay the groundwork for the administration to interfere in the midterms." Berman argues that U.S. elections are "secure" and that results are "audited extensively at the state level" and reviewed at the federal level. He says the 2020 election, which Trump lost to Joe Biden, was "found to be the most secure in American history." Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe

Top Comments (10)

@TacticalOpossum-0U812 2026-07-17

Next level corruption , sorry I mean 5 D chess ...

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@michaelRay2576 2026-07-17

America needs to do what HUNGARY did ASAP. !!!

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@LouGonzalez-o6g 2026-07-17

He's giving himself away. That's what he's doing: CHEATING.

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@gregoryhunter2841 2026-07-17

Lies and Propaganda as usual 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

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@ResistEvolve 2026-07-17

I can't believe one person tuned in to hear incoherent ravings from someone so disturbed!

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@arualblues_zero 2026-07-17

Evidence never mattered. All that matters is that it was said and people now can run with it, and nobody seems to be able to stop this insanity.

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@chrislubs1341 2026-07-17

Best marketed choice? “If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal” is a famous quote by Emma Goldman, a Russian-born US political activist, anarchist and writer (1869-1940). Allowed to show preference between just those options presented, our system that chooses what options to prescribe, means accountability flows to the selector(s) of the options given; legitimacy depends on perceived fairness and expertise. Capability to control has been monopolized (captured) by capital.

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@Kikieyes-RES 2026-07-17

Congress when will you think this is enough

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@terrimykland1621 2026-07-17

"An election system, so broken and so vulnerable..." that he got himself re-elected...(Yawn).

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@spanky7277 2026-07-17

The woman in question is former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters, who was released from state prison on June 1, 2026, after Colorado's Democratic Governor Jared Polis commuted her nine-year sentence to parole.A jury convicted Peters in 2024 of multiple charges, including attempting to influence a public servant and conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation. The conviction stemmed from a 2021 incident in Mesa County, where she obtained security credentials for an unauthorized private individual to witness and make copies of the state's secure election software update.

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