Fetterman on Trump election speech: ‘Do something positive, and you are talking about 2020’

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) on Sunday said President Trump could “do something positive” instead of talking about the 2020 presidential election, clapping at the president’s primetime speech on Thursday about election security.

“I don’t know why the president is dragging up all this stuff,” Fetterman told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union.” “You’re the president. Do something positive, and you are talking about 2020. That’s been settled over six years ago. It’s deeply unhelpful and that distracts important things, especially like the Iranian war right now.”

On Thursday, Trump said recently declassified documents suggest China interfered in the 2020 presidential election by acquiring more than 200 million U.S. voter files. A 2021 report from the intelligence community about foreign threats to the 2020 elections concluded with “high confidence” that China did not interfere in the election but did take steps to try to undermine Trump’s reelection.

Fetterman, who was Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor at the time, said........

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