- A panel of GOP lawyers, senators and judges has concluded that there was no widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election.
- To make this determination, the team reviewed dozens of lawsuits alleging voter fraud.
- Trump and his supporters “failed to present substantial evidence to support their case,” their report said.
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A panel of GOP lawyers, former senators and judges, after reviewing dozens of court documents, found no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
The findings were published in a 72-page report on Thursday. The report’s authors include former US senators John Danforth and Gordon Smith, three former federal judges and a GOP election lawyer.
Since the results of the 2020 presidential election, the Trump campaign and supporters of the former president have filed dozens of voter fraud lawsuits, most of which have been dismissed, dismissed or withdrawn.
Independent election watchdog groups have repeatedly said there is no widespread voter fraud. Days after Election Day, the New York Times contacted election officials in every state, each of whom said there was no evidence that fraud had affected the presidential election.
Since leaving office, former President Donald Trump has continued to make baseless claims that the election was rigged. Republican lawmakers and Trump supporters also echoed his baseless claims.
The team of lawyers, senators and judges said in their report that Trump and his supporters “failed to present substantial evidence to make their case.”
“Our conclusion is unequivocal: Joe Biden was the choice of a majority of voters who were themselves the choice of a majority of voters in their states,” the report said.
According to the report, Trump lost the 2020 election not because of voter fraud, but because his presidency was defined in part by the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused a severe economic downturn.
“This, combined with an electorate that included a small but statistically significant number willing to vote for other Republican candidates on the ballot but not for President Trump, are the reasons his campaign failed, not a rigged election,” it said in the report.
“There is absolutely no evidence of fraud in the 2020 presidential election of the magnitude needed to change the outcome in any state, let alone the nation as a whole,” the report said. “In fact, there was no cheating that would have changed the result in even one stretch. It is wrong and bad for our country for people to spread baseless claims that the election of President Biden was not legitimate.”
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