Colorado Secretary of State
07/16/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 07/17/2026 09:30
July 16 - Statement from Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold following Trump Election Address
Statement from Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold following Trump Election Address
Denver, July 16, 2026 - Tonight Donald Trump delivered an address to the nation regarding elections.
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold has issued the following statement:
Donald Trump continues to spread election lies. In his second term, he has actively worked to undermine the nation's elections and make them less secure. Now Trump is doubling down on the tactic he knows best: lying and misleading the public about American elections.
Trump will continue trying to exert power he doesn't have, to affect elections he doesn't control, to disenfranchise the American people who he doesn't care about. He is laying the groundwork to undermine the 2026 Midterms - and we will stop him.
Following the 2020 election, Trump and allies filed more than 60 lawsuits contesting the results and challenging voting certification process. Trump was unsuccessful in nearly every lawsuit. Members of Trump's legal team have recanted testimony or acknowledged they were unaware of evidence of significant fraud, and Trump's Attorney General confirmed there was no evidence of widespread fraud.
In 2021, the National Intelligence Council published a declassified report (PDF) determining that they had "no indications that any foreign actor attempted to alter any technical aspect of voting process in the 2020 US election, including voter registration, casting ballots, vote tabulation, or reporting results." The report does determine that there were foreign influence campaigns intended to undermine the candidacies of both Joe Biden and Donald Trump and influence public opinion. China, the report states, "did not deploy interference efforts and considered but did not deploy influence efforts intended to change the outcome of the US Presidential election."
In September of 2025, in renewing a 2018 Executive Order, President Trump affirmed that "there has been no evidence of a foreign power altering the outcomes or vote tabulation in any United States election."
Since the start of his second term, the Trump administration has sued more than two dozen states, including Colorado, for sensitive voter information; gutted funding and staffing for federal agencies that support states to secure elections; sent letters to election officials with threats of prosecution; fired and forced out the EAC commissioners; and attempted to circumvent the constitutional right of states to oversee free and fair elections with Executive Orders signed in 2025 and 2026. This is in addition to Trump's failed attempt to undermine and thwart the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
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