Trump makes unverified claims of China ‘election meddling’ as critics fear ploy to challenge midterm results

Opponents warn president’s address about 2020 election loss is a bid to sow confusion ahead of midterms that could deliver big losses for RepublicansDonald Trump accused China of interfering with the 2020 election in a primetime televised address that laid bare his continuing obsession with his defeat to Joe Biden, but which opponents warned was a smokescreen for him to meddle in the forthcoming congressional midterms.In a 25-minute speech on Thursday that had been hyped by Trump himself, the US president cast extraordinary doubts on the integrity of the US electoral process, saying it was “catastrophically” short of standards of