President Donald Trump said Tuesday his administration is preparing “strong” measures to prevent Russia from meddling in November midterm elections. Yet, he again suggested others might have been involved in attempts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Trump claimed he is not concerned about a repeat of the last national election. “We’re counteracting it very strongly,” he said of Russia’s tactics, some of which were detailed last month in court documents prepared by Special Counsel Robert Mueller III.

The president — seemingly out of the blue, as he often does — also touted a potential alternative to hacks of electronic voting systems: “It’s called paper,” he said, noting some states have non-electronic backup plans.

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Notably, Trump used part of his response to a Swedish reporter on the topic to predict the Republican Party will do “great” in November’s congressional election. He touted the GOP-crafted tax overhaul law, regulations his administration has terminated, and the “many, many [conservative] judges going on to the bench” across the country.