Ossoff: Trump ‘signaling his plans to … attack the election’

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Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) warned that President Trump’s Thursday evening speech centered on election security indicates his administration’s aim to interfere in the upcoming midterms.

“I also heard a president clearly signaling his intent to attack these elections and to undermine voting rights,” Ossoff told MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell following the primetime address. “And you know it’s going to be right here in Georgia, the critical battleground state.”

Trump has specifically targeted the state of Georgia, alleging widespread voter fraud in the state. The president and several of his allies were the defendants in an election interference racketeering case in the state, which was later dismissed after Trump’s reelection in 2024.

During his 20-minute speech, the president placed blame on the People’s Republic of China, which has denied the allegations, and Democratic-led states for his unfounded claims of voter fraud.

The White House released a tranche of documents following the president’s speech that the Trump administration alleged proved the president’s claims of widespread voter fraud in 2020. Independent experts who reviewed the files cast doubt on this assertion, finding the reports detailed election vulnerabilities that have been widely known.

Ossoff, who is up for reelection this fall, urged voters following the president’s speech to not be “complacent.”

“We cannot dismiss this threat to voting rights,” he said. “He’s making his intentions very clear, and … it’s not enough to just be alert to it. We have to take action right now.”

Georgia’s other Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock urged Americans to “keep showing up” and exercising their electoral rights.

“Georgia saved the country in 2021,” he said on MS NOW following Trump’s speech. “Donald Trump can’t get over it. His feelings are deeply hurt, even though he won in 2024.”

“And come November, the American people are going to hold him accountable and his enablers in Congress,” Warnock continued. “We’re going to hold them accountable again.”

Trump will travel to the Peach State next week for a speech at a high school about his economic agenda and his administration’s new savings program for children.

Warnock told MS NOW late Thursday that the president has “got a lot of nerve coming to Georgia next week.”

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