Trump alleges China meddled in 2020 election and questions voting security ahead of midterms

The lead

China said Trump's claims were fabricated and US Democrats said he was paving the way to undermine November's elections

The impact

The significance lies in what happens next: BBC notes that responses are already forming.

The trump backdrop

The arc leading to this moment stretches across multiple prior developments in trump, alleges, china, meddled, 2020, as BBC has documented.

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Our trump read

Signal Ledger reads this through the lens of trump, alleges, china, meddled, 2020: China said Trump's claims were fabricated and US Democrats said he was paving the way to undermine November's elections.