Trump Rehashes Election Fraud Claims, Politics Of Trump's Speech, Texas Flooding
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🗓️ 17 July 2026
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Summary
Trump used his speech to pressure Congress on a bill requiring proof of citizenship to vote, while also laying the groundwork to question the legitimacy of the midterms if Republicans underperform.
And catastrophic flooding has hit Texas again, with at least two people dead and hundreds rescued, just one year after last summer’s deadly floods that killed more than 130 people.
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(02:38) Trump Rehashes Election Fraud Claims
(06:52) Politics Of Trump's Speech
(10:39) Texas Flooding
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| 0:43.0 | President Trump said he was releasing new evidence of widespread election fraud in his speech last night. |
| 0:48.5 | But experts who reviewed the documents say there's nothing new, just a rehash of old false |
| 0:53.8 | claims about the 2020 election Trump lost. |
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| 1:02.9 | The president also used his prime time address to push his election safety bill, which would require proof of citizenship to vote. |
| 1:10.1 | With Trump's approval numbers at their |
| 1:11.5 | lowest in the midterms approaching, why is he choosing now to push a bill that doesn't have the numbers |
| 1:16.4 | in Congress? And severe flooding hit Texas's Hill Country. Last year, floods there killed more than |
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