Jeffrey Goldberg
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Why Trump is still 'fixated' on 2020 election
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July 20, 2026
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1:20Now PlayingPresident Donald Trump’s primetime speech last Thursday was both about “personal vindication” and a larger campaign to “gain as much control over American elections as possible,” MS NOW’s Laura Barrón-López told Washington Week moderator Jeffrey Goldberg.
“This was about him trying to, again, just convince the public that his lie about the 2020 election being stolen is true. That was him. He is fixated on 2020,” Barrón-López said.
She noted that, constitutionally, states have the power to hold elections. But that hasn't stopped Trump from using federal agencies to try to take control from the states.
Trump's "big message was, look, our elections are so insecure that, essentially, he needs to gain more control over it," Barrón-López said.
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