Donald Trump live: US president to deliver primetime address on elections

Jon Ossoff, who represents Georgia, has accused Trump of trying to defraud the people of his state.Ahead of Trump’s primetime speech, the Democratic senator urged caution before listening to the president’s claims about election interference.Ossoff pointed to Trump’s 2021 phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in which he demanded that state officials “find 11,780 votes” to allow him to win the state. Trump, at the time, was seeking to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential election.“If the president declares Georgia’s elections illegitimate, or if the president declares Georgia’s sitting United States senators illegitimate, he is declaring Georgia voters illegitimate,” Ossoff told reporters.“It’s Donald Trump who tried to defraud Georgia voters in that election.”The senator added that he expects Trump to repeat “debunked conspiracy theories” about the vote.“The world’s most famous sore loser will deliver a primetime presidential sour grapes address to pursue his six-year-old grievances about the 2020 election, while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control and the cost of living continues to rise for Americans across the country,” the senator said.Senator Jon Ossoff has called Trump the ‘world’s most famous sore loser’ [J Scott Applewhite/AP Photo]