{"id":5257,"date":"2026-07-17T01:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T01:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/2026\/07\/17\/democratic-senator-says-trump-speech-likely-to-be-more-election-denialism-from-worlds-most-famous-sore-loser-as-it-happened\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T01:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T01:02:16","slug":"democratic-senator-says-trump-speech-likely-to-be-more-election-denialism-from-worlds-most-famous-sore-loser-as-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/?p=5257","title":{"rendered":"Democratic senator says Trump speech likely to be more \u2018election denialism\u2019 from \u2018world\u2019s most famous sore loser\u2019 \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">We are wrapping up here and moving our live coverage of the second Trump administration to a fresh blog, focused on the president\u2019s much anticipated primetime address, widely expected to concern the 2020 election he just can\u2019t admit he lost. Please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/jul\/16\/trump-speech-address-iran-election-latest-updates\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">join us there<\/a> for updates and analysis before, during and after the speech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Here are the latest developments as we sign off here:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\n<li class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\"><strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2019s wildly false claim that the CHIPS Act, a bipartisan law signed by his predecessor <strong>Joe Biden<\/strong>, required firms receiving funding to be run by transgender executives, baffled the law\u2019s author, and set off a scramble to figure out where this entirely untrue claim came from.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Rather than wait to react, Democratic lawmakers are getting their pre-bunks of Donald Trump\u2019s expected claims about the 2020 election in ahead of time on social media. Maryland senator <strong>Angela Alsobrooks<\/strong> framed her comments in the style of a young person concerned about an elderly relative unable to let go of a favorite conspiracy theory. Georgia senator <strong>Jon Ossoff<\/strong> said: \u201cHere\u2019s what\u2019s going to happen tonight: the world\u2019s most famous sore loser will deliver a prime time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his six-year-old grievances about the 2020 election\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Two of the major broadcast television networks, NBC and ABC, reportedly declined to air Trump\u2019s primetime address live, relegating the president\u2019s remarks to their streaming platforms.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Senator <strong>John Fetterman<\/strong> said he would consider leaving the Democratic party it ever became \u201cthe anti-Israel party\u201d, as more than 100 House lawmakers backed halting military aid to Israel over its wars in Gaza and Lebanon.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">In her first press briefing since returning from maternity leave, <strong>Karoline Leavitt<\/strong> said that Trump\u2019s findings about alleged interference in the 2020 election \u201cwill shock you,\u201d during his televised address to the nation this evening.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are wrapping up here and moving our live coverage of the second Trump administration to a fresh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}