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"When Donald Trump commandeered primetime US television last Thursday, he
delivered a familiar, but still extraordinary, message. The president argued
once again that the results of the 2020 election, which he lost to Joe Biden,
were illegitimate.
US elections are “vulnerable to being rigged and stolen”, Trump alleged,
claiming that “the trust of the American people was lost” when he was defeated.
Historically, incumbent parties underperform in midterm elections and with the
president’s popularity sagging – he has an approval rating of just 37% –
Republicans appear on course to lose seats in the US Senate and House of
Representatives, as well as in state and local elections, in November.
Trump’s latest intervention, in which he accused China of interfering with the
2020 election, is viewed by US voting rights activists as just the latest
escalation of an effort by the White House to influence, and potentially alter,
the results of the 2026 midterm elections.
“The number one threat facing American elections is the continued lies coming
out of the White House,” said the Arizona secretary of state, Adrian Fontes,
the official responsible for overseeing the state’s elections."
Cheers,
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
