Democrats call ‘bull—-‘ on Trump’s election interference claims

Democrats call bull on Trump s election - Democrats raised alarm after President Trump’s revived his unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election during a Thursday evening address.

“You have to be a special kind of stupid to believe this bull—-,” Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), the top Democrat on the House Rules Committee, said in a statement shared on social media ahead of the president’s speech.

Trump doubled down on his claims that this election was “stolen” from him and placed blame on the People’s Republic of China and Democratic-led states during his evening address.

All 24 Democratic governors called Trump’s claims “deeply alarming” in a joint statement released on Thursday evening.

“No amount of lies and conspiracy theories can change the fact that our country’s elections have repeatedly been proven to be safe and secure,” they said. “These attacks are intended to intimidate and silence voters.”

The state leaders vowed to “fight back against the Trump administration and stop any and all unlawful attacks on every American’s constitutional right to vote.”

Virginia Sen. Mark Warner (D), the vice chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said that he was “embarrassed” by the president’s election fraud claims.

“As an American, I’m embarrassed,” Warner told MS NOW’s Jen Psaki. “I’m embarrassed that the president of the United States tried to speak to the whole nation with a whole series of falsehoods, accusations, I believe aimed at trying to undermine Americans’ confidence in our system.”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) called the president’s address a “pathetic attempt” to deny his 2020 election loss.

“Trump knows he has lost American families,” Schumer said in a statement . “He knows he has made their lives more expensive, endangered their friends & families with an unnecessary war, and embarrassed the country on the global stage.

“And rather than pivot his policies, he is working to rig the midterms before a single vote has been cast. We won’t let him,” the Democratic leader continued.

Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton (Mass.) slammed the president’s speech as “the rantings of a crazy, racist lunatic” in a social media post , adding that “it’s much more than that.”

“It was an attack on the foundation of our democracy and our country,” he continued. “Calls for impeachment are not enough. We need to outwork and out-organize this craven, desperate ploy to cling to power.”

Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) accused the president of throwing a “temper tantrum” against Republican lawmakers over resistance in Congress to passing his self-proclaimed top legislative priority, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act .

The bill would place new identification requirements when Americans register to vote or go to cast their ballot, and Democrats have called it a form of voter suppression.

“I hope they won’t fall for it,” Coons told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, referring to GOP lawmakers facing pressure from the Trump administration to support this legislation.

“This is all part of President Trump’s campaign to federalize elections, to prevent mail-in ballots and to control elections in a way that gives him a better chance of not losing the midterms, which currently he’s on target to do,” the senator added.

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), whose state of Georgia has come under fire from the Trump administration over allegations of voter fraud in Fulton County, urged voters to “keep showing up” after the president’s speech.

“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.”

In a separate social media post , Warnock mocked the president’s insistence of fraud in the 2020 election.

“This is something to work through with a therapist,” he wrote. “Leave the people of Georgia and the country out of it.”

The Georgia Democrat also addressed the president’s upcoming visit to the state, telling MS NOW that Trump’s “got a lot of nerve coming to Georgia next week.”