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 the 2020 presidential election was "absolutely secure, fair and accurate."

"That was the voice of Pennsylvania, and they picked Joe Biden in 2020, that's a fact," Fetterman said. "… Now, until I see evidence that over 25 million migrants that … voted or registered to vote, then yeah, that would make me reconsider some of these things. But there's no evidence, and I don't expect that we'll see any of that."

The Pennsylvania Democrat questioned "why the president is dragging up all of this stuff."

Trump used his primetime speech, amid the backdrop of his ongoing war with Iran, to accuse the intelligence community of failing to sound the alarm as China penetrated U.S. voter rolls. Another confusing claim was that the intelligence community "worked to actively suppress and downplay information about the extent of China's sinister election meddling, covering it up from both the president and the American people."

Trump used the speech to suggest that there should be changes to U.S. elections, including the passage of his legislative priority requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote and photo ID to cast a ballot.

"Bogus" was how Sen. Mark Warner (Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, described Trump's claims.

"The fact is our intelligence agencies unanimously agreed that China did not even try to change a single vote in the 2020 election," Warner wrote on social platform X. "A single concurring opinion suggested China may have tried to sway voters' opinions… but that's been public knowledge since 2021."

Some Republican lawmakers criticized the speech before and after it aired. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) said on Friday after the speech that the problem was not that the elections were "stolen," adding that Republicans "won the damn elections."

"White House, Senate, House, even the Supreme Court leans our way," Massie wrote on X. "The fraud is that our party got elected and broke our campaign promises to voters."

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