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EPISODE · Jul 18, 2026 · 46 MIN

Donald Trump Can’t Quit the 2020 Election

from The Political Scene | The New Yorker · host The New Yorker

The Washington Roundtable discusses Donald Trump’s latest attempt to relitigate the 2020 election. In a prime-time speech on Thursday, he argued that newly declassified documents suggest that U.S. election systems are vulnerable. “He described interference in the election in alarming terms,” the staff writer Jane Mayer says. “But there was absolutely no final bottom line where he was able to prove that a single vote was stolen.” The panel explores how false claims about past elections could serve as a pretext for federal intervention in the midterms, especially if issues like the war with Iran continue to depress the President’s approval rating and hurt Republicans’ chances. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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