{"id":942505,"date":"2026-07-18T03:38:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T03:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/942505\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T03:38:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T03:38:26","slug":"n-y-lawmakers-react-to-trumps-election-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/942505\/","title":{"rendered":"N.Y. lawmakers react to Trump&#8217;s election speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When asked what he felt President Donald Trump was trying to accomplish by addressing the nation on elections, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries was not coy.<\/p>\n<p><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For years, President Donald Trump has claimed, without evidence, that the 2020 election, which he lost to President Joe Biden, was rigged. On Thursday, he declassified documents that he claims show Chinese meddling in the race<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>\u201cHe didn&#8217;t release anything that hasn&#8217;t already been made available to the intelligence community and to members of the legislature,&#8221; Rochester Democratic Rep. Joe Morelle said<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>\u201cDonald Trump and Republicans are trying to steal the midterm elections,\u201d House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries alleged<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump and Republicans are trying to steal the midterm elections,\u201d Jeffries said.<\/p>\n<p>In a 26-minute primetime speech Thursday, Trump derided America\u2019s election system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe system we have today falls catastrophically short,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>For years, the president has claimed, without evidence, that the 2020 election, which he lost to President Joe Biden, was rigged.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, he declassified documents that he claims show Chinese meddling in the race.<\/p>\n<p>While Finger Lakes Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney posted one such document online, labeling it a \u201cbombshell,\u201d Rochester Democratic Rep. Joe Morelle said the reports are nothing new for lawmakers and show no consequential manipulation of the 2020 race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe didn\u2019t release anything that hasn\u2019t already been made available to the intelligence community and to members of the legislature. And despite that, his intelligence community, his own \u2014 because remember, this happened in 2020. He was president. So it was his intelligence agencies concluded that there was no hacking,\u201d Morelle said.<\/p>\n<p>As top Democrat on the House Administration Committee, Morelle has been tasked with leading the Caucasus counter-offense to the president\u2019s swipes at the American electoral system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president just is trying to, I think, lead to a failure of confidence by the American people,\u201d Morelle said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When asked what he felt President Donald Trump was trying to accomplish by addressing the nation on elections,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":942506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,13565,17547,7448,405,403,17050,50,5226,5225,5228,17545,43431,5227,80,108364,52,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5284],"class_list":["post-942505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","tag-app-top-stories","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-state","tag-news","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-ny-state-of-politics","tag-ny-state-of-politics-blog","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-shannon-ryan","tag-top-stories","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-vod"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116938899680274751","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}