I was on MSNBC earlier this week to respond to Donald Trump's primetime address.
I put it plainly: This is old news. Donald Trump lost the election fair and square and he's trying to sew distrust in the 2026 elections AND maybe even interfere in upcoming elections.
That's it. That's the whole thing.
Thursday night, the President of the United States took over primetime television to tell the country — again, six years later — that the 2020 election was rigged. He declassified a stack of documents he says prove "shocking vulnerabilities" in our elections. He floated a new allegations about China.
Twenty-five minutes. Not one piece of evidence that a single vote was changed anywhere.
It's pathetic. The President of The United States still can't say the words "I lost."
But pathetic isn't the problem. Dangerous is the problem.
We've seen this movie. In 2020, Trump told this same lie, and it ended with a mob storming the Capitol. He pardoned nearly every one of them. Now he's laying the same groundwork four months before a midterm his party is on track to lose.
He isn't relitigating 2020. He's writing his excuse for November in advance. And he's telling us, out loud, what he plans to do about it.
One more thing nobody should miss: Trump gave that address in the middle of an unauthorized war. Our military has been striking Iran six nights running. Gas prices are climbing. Analysts are warning about a forever war with no way out. By talking about China and the elections, Trump is trying to distract attention from his unpopular failures at home and abroad.
Moments like these are why I built Equal Opportunity Now. We need leaders who will defend our elections, demand answers on this war, and refuse to let a president run out the clock with a primetime temper tantrum.
Will you chip in $10 or $25 to Equal Opportunity Now today to help us elect them?
