Trump is expected to make election conspiracies a focus of his national address

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Trump is expected to make election conspiracies a focus of his national address
By MICHELLE L. PRICE
Updated 7:03 AM CDT, July 16, 2026

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is set to address the nation on Thursday night on topics he said will include elections and voting machines, suggesting he is likely to revisit some of the unproven claims he has previously made about Republican losses, particularly his own in 2020.

Trump’s fixation on his loss to Democrat Joe Biden six years ago and the long-debunked theories he’s circulated about it are something he still brings up regularly when discussing other subjects. But elevating the deeply political and conspiratorial topics to a presidential primetime address underscores the lengths to which Trump has used his second term to both blow past norms and fixate on old grievances.

Trump has offered only vague details about the address, scheduled for 9 p.m. When asked by a reporter on Tuesday if it would concern “election machines and integrity,” Trump said it would “concern that subject” and “we’ll have a couple of other things to say also.”

He went on to say that he has “really, really big news and our country has to shape up. But that’s what we’re going to be talking about Thursday.” He added that “it doesn’t get bigger because without free and fair elections, you don’t have a country.”

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