{"id":287855,"date":"2017-01-25T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T06:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=287855"},"modified":"2017-01-25T06:10:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T06:10:00","slug":"trumps-voter-fraud-claim-based-on-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/01\/trumps-voter-fraud-claim-based-on-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s voter fraud claim &#8216;based on evidence&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">President Donald Trump believes that millions of people voted illegally in the US election based on &#8220;studies and evidence&#8221;, the White House has said.<\/p>\n<p>Press secretary Sean Spicer said Mr Trump &#8220;does believe that&#8221;, but offered no evidence to support the claim when pressed by reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump has repeated his claim to explain why he lost the popular vote to Democrat Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>But any notion of widespread voter fraud has been widely rejected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He continues to maintain that belief based on studies and evidence that people have presented to him,&#8221; Mr Spicer told reporters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Spicer&#8217;s comments came after the president told congressional leaders behind closed doors on Monday night that three to five million undocumented immigrants had illegally voted in the election.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump, who first made the claim in a late November tweet, has never provided any evidence.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/D899\/production\/_93794455_capture.png\" alt=\"Donald Trump tweets: \" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fact-checkers have rejected it as untrue and Republican election officials in key states have said they found no proof of fraudulent voting.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the National Association of Secretaries of State said it had confidence in the &#8220;systemic integrity of our election process&#8221; and was not aware of any evidence related to Mr Trump&#8217;s claims.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton, received nearly three million votes more than Mr Trump, who won the presidency by prevailing in so-called swing states.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">Is there any evidence of illegal votes?<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Unsubstantiated claim was started without evidence by self-styled conservative voter fraud specialist Greg Phillips, who tweeted &#8220;Number of non-citizen votes exceeds 3 million&#8221;<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">His tweets were picked up by right-wing websites like Infowars.com, which has made false claims in the past<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Fact-checking website Snopes.com says there is &#8220;zero evidence&#8221; that &#8220;illegal aliens&#8221; voted in election<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">&#8216;Don&#8217;t buy it&#8217;, says Politifact, which points to research suggesting there have been 56 cases of non-citizens voting numbers between 2000-2011<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">A Pew study in 2012 found millions of invalid voter registrations because people moved or died, but &#8220;zero evidence&#8221; of fraud<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr class=\"story-body__line\" \/>\n<p>Republicans admonished Mr Trump and urged him to drop the matter a day after the closed doors meeting with congressional leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Lindsey Graham called the comments &#8220;inappropriate&#8221;, adding that Mr Trump should &#8220;knock this off&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He continued that the president &#8220;seems to be obsessed with the idea that he could not have possibly lost the popular vote without cheating and fraud&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Paul Ryan also said there was no evidence to support his claims.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Pennsylvania Representative Charlie Dent also weighed in, saying Mr Trump needed to move on and &#8220;get to the serious business of governing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders said it was &#8220;nonsensical&#8221; and he feared Mr Trump was paving the way for Republican governors to &#8220;go forward with voter suppression&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump believes that millions of people voted illegally in the US election based on &#8220;studies and evidence&#8221;, the White House has said. 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