Krishnamoorthi Responds to Trump's Primetime Election Address, Warns It Could Lay the Groundwork for a Federal Takeover of the 2026 Elections

WASHINGTON — Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) released the following statement after President Donald Trump used a primetime address to declassify election-related intelligence, renew false claims about the 2020 election, and announce new federal investigations:

“As a senior member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, I’ve spent years confronting the very real threats posed by China, Russia, and other foreign adversaries. Tonight, President Trump selectively declassified intelligence to try to rewrite the history of an election he lost. Even his own document release does not support his claim that the 2020 election was stolen. It confirms what we’ve long known: foreign adversaries targeted our democracy, but there is no evidence they changed a single vote or altered the casting or counting of ballots. President Trump lost the 2020 election fair and square. If he cared about election security, he wouldn’t be putting unqualified political loyalists in charge of our intelligence agencies or weakening the agencies responsible for protecting our elections from foreign threats. Instead, he’s reviving conspiracy theories about mail voting, pushing voter suppression, and laying the groundwork for an unprecedented federal takeover of our elections—all while ignoring the real challenges facing American families.”