For years, President Donald Trump has charged that election fraud is rampant in the U.S and that the enactment of the SAVE America Act to guard against such fraud was crucial.
The liberal media have dismissed these claims and argued that the public was tired of hearing about them, as they are about Trump’s case that the 2020 election was “rigged” against him,
But the president may have pressed a few new nerves on this issue with his address to the nation Thursday, highlighting Chinese interference in U.S. voting going back to the 2018 midterm elections.
Two historians who were in contact with Newsmax immediately after Trump’s address said they believe that his announcement that he was releasing formerly classified documents on the Chinese assault on American voting.
“President Trump, in a well-delivered speech, not covered by two TV networks, covered a broad range of external and internal threats to our nation,” said Arizona State University Prof. Donald Critchlow, author of three books on the Republican Party.
“But the most shocking is that our major international foe, China, has breached data of over 200 million American voters, including names and home addresses,” he added.
Trump, Critchlow noted, “urged voters to write their representatives in Congress to pass the SAVE Act that requires voter photo IDs and limits mail-in balloting.”
“There is no hope that Democrats will vote for this legislation, versions of which are found in nearly every democratic country,” he said.
“Democrats like to point to the alleged success of European welfare policies, but when it comes to this simple voting requirement, they turn a blind eye,” Critchlow continued.
“Republicans in the House have voted for the SAVE Act. The bill has been hung up in the Senate by a willful minority, often motivated for personal, not principled, reasons,” he said.
Chapman University Professor Luke Nichter, author of the critically-acclaimed “1968: The Year That Broke Politics,” described Trump’s address as “a mix of a campaign rally, a State of the Union address, and a press conference.”
“The big announcement was the declassification of five types of voting-related records, including those touching on alleged Chinese interference in U.S. elections beginning with the 2018 midterms, what Trump termed a Deep State cover-up of Chinese meddling, the long-known vulnerability of electronic voting machines, voter fraud, and voting by non-citizens,” he said.
Nichter added that he believes Trump’s boldest statement, “made twice, was a call for Congress to pass the SAVE America Act.”
He added, “We will begin poring over the newly declassified records to look for clues that support Trump’s assertions. The more that his speech is supported by the documentary record, the more credibility he will have with Congress and the American people now, just over 90 days before the 2026 midterms.”
John Gizzi is chief political columnist and White House correspondent for Newsmax. For more of his reports, Go Here Now.