MAGAt Moses Mikey: Election losses by Republicans "look on its face to be fraudulent" but "I can't prove it." [View all]
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) caught heat on Tuesday after he made what analysts described as a "deeply irresponsible" comment about U.S. elections.
During an interview on Newsmax, Johnson was asked about President Donald Trump's recent call for Republicans to "nationalize" parts of the election process. The president claimed that doing so would clean up alleged "fraud" committed against him. Trump has never produced any evidence to back up that claim since he began making it in 2020, after he lost the election to former President Joe Biden.
"We had three Republican House candidates who were ahead on Election Day in the last cycle, and every time a new tranche of ballots came in, they just magically whittled away until their leads were lost," Johnson said. "In no series of ballots after election day were our candidates ahead in those counts. It looks on its face to be fraudulent. Can I prove that? No, because it happened so far upstream."
Political analysts and observers sounded off on social media against Johnson's claims.
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