By Bo Erickson and Erin Banco WASHINGTON, July 17 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration spent more than a year scrutinizing the federal agency that oversees U.S. voting systems, questioning its handling of the 2020 presidential election and vetting potential new leaders before he fired its commissioners last week,

Trump’s Thursday speech largely reheated debunked conspiracy theories about his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden.

Donald Trump's primetime address claiming election interference attempts involving China drew some pushback from Republicans.

The president accuses China of meddling in the 2020 election, directly contradicting past findings from US intelligence.

Donald Trump once again failed to provide evidence to support his claims that he won the 2020 election or to prove any election rigging, but the president’s primetime address has sparked concerns that he is launching a sinister plot ahead of the midterms.

In a July 16 prime-time speech that warned of "shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure," President Donald Trump cast doubt on the country's ability to hold "free and fair elections" but offered no evidence that widespread fraud had occurred.

In a national address on Thursday night, President Trump declassified troves of documents that he said proved serious vulnerabilities in American elections. The White House website published four batches of disclosures that China has stolen the voting records of 220 million Americans,

The president’s extraordinary prime-time address comes ahead of the November midterm elections, with Republicans at risk of losing their majorities in Congress.

The president talked about election security less than four months before the midterms, where Republicans are seeking to defend their slim majorities in Congress.

Trump is expected to meet with China’s leader in Washington in September, and the White House gave no indication the topic would be on the agenda.

Not even a veteran Republican elections attorney was convinced by President Donald Trump’s bonkers speech claiming “shocking vulnerabilities” in the security of U.S. polls. Ben Ginsberg, former national counsel to the presidential campaigns of George W.