Whitehouse Statement on Trump’s Election Lies

Providence, RI - U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse issued the following statement after President Trump's primetime address to the nation:

"Tonight seems to be the ceremonial kickoff of President Trump's campaign to interfere in the November election. Trump has badly lost independent voters, even MAGA is disheartened; he is failing and unpopular, and he's dragging his party down with him in the midterms. We are witnessing a failed, unstable president now trying to misuse the powers of the federal government to taint an American election, backed by his coterie of creepy billionaires.

"We will be ready. We have systems to protect the vote and lawyers to defend those systems. The important thing right now is for the public to see and understand what this lawless and increasingly unhinged president is trying to do."