Coons: ‘No concrete evidence’ foreign actors changed election results

Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, says President Trump produced “no concrete evidence” during a primetime address to the nation Thursday that the Chinese government or any other foreign actors changed the results of the 2020 presidential election.

“I heard nothing new. I heard no concrete evidence or even allegations that foreign actors actually changed the results of American elections,” Coons told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins in an interview.

“There were lots of dark and sinister allegations that we have vulnerabilities in our election system. But if you listen carefully to what he said, this was all making a case that we should pass the SAVE [America] Act in the Senate. And his own Republican majority in the Senate is refusing to take it up and pass it,” Coons said, referring to Trump’s top legislative priority, which would require people to prove citizenship when registering to vote and to provide photo identification to vote, and would restrict........

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