White House comparison process confidant Stephen Miller. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images)
White House comparison process adviser Stephen Miller seemed on ABC’s “The Week” on Sunday, rising a garland of fake articulate points on purported voter fraud. (He also steady identical claims on other Sunday speak shows.) To his credit, horde George Stephanopoulus regularly challenged Miller, observant that he had supposing no justification to support his claims. But Miller charged ahead, regulating a word “fact” 3 times in a vain bid to accelerate his position.
Here’s a beam by a behind and forth.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Let me pierce on, though, to a doubt of voter rascal as well. President Trump again this week suggested in a assembly with senators that thousands of bootleg electorate were bused from Massachusetts to New Hampshire and that’s what caused his better in a state of New Hampshire, also a better of Senator Kelly Ayotte.
That has annoyed a response from a member of a Federal Election Commission, Ellen Weintraub, who says, “I call on a boss to immediately share New Hampshire voter rascal justification so that his allegations might be investigated promptly.”
Do we have that evidence?
Stephanopoulus is referring to a Feb. 10 Politico report of a closed-door assembly Trump reason with senators to plead a assignment of Judge Neil Gorsuch to a Supreme Court: “The boss claimed that he and Ayotte both would have been winning in a Granite State if not for a ‘thousands’ of people who were ‘brought in on buses’ from adjacent Massachusetts to ‘illegally’ opinion in New Hampshire. According to one member who described a meeting, ‘an worried silence’ momentarily overtook a room.”
Ayotte mislaid her Senate competition by 743 votes nonetheless did not plea a results; Hillary Clinton degraded Trump in New Hampshire by scarcely 3,000 votes.
MILLER: we have actually, carrying worked before on a debate in New Hampshire, we can tell we that this emanate of busing electorate into New Hampshire is widely famous by anyone who’s worked in New Hampshire politics. It’s really real. It’s really serious. This morning, on this show, is not a venue for me to lay out all a evidence.
This is false. PolitiFact New Hampshire in Nov gave a state’s governor, Chris Sununu, a “Pants on Fire” for claiming that electorate were bused in — and Sununu fast retreated from his comment. New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner pronounced voter rascal was not widespread problem, mostly since a law requires electorate to uncover a current marker during a polls. If an ID is lacking, a voter’s print is taken, they have to pointer an confirmation affirming their brand and afterwards state officials follow up.
Sununu after pronounced he did not meant to indicate that “I see buses entrance over,” observant it was some-more of a figure of speech. “Sununu pronounced he was referring to an occurrence over Portsmouth state Sen. Martha Fuller Clark permitting Democratic staffers to live during her residence in a 2008 and 2012 elections,” PolitiFact reported. “Those staffers voted in New Hampshire elections regulating Fuller Clark’s address, that is not illegal, as they were vital in a state during slightest 3 months before a election, a Attorney General after ruled.”
Tom Rath, a former New Hampshire profession ubiquitous and distinguished Republican in a state, tweeted this after Miller’s comments:
Let me as be undeniable as possible-allegations of voter rascal in NH are baseless,without any merit-it’s ashamed to widespread these fantasies
— Tom Rath (@polguru) February 12, 2017
We sent a White House a PolitiFact essay and asked a White House for additional evidence. We will refurbish if we accept a response.
MILLER: But we can tell we this, voter rascal is a critical problem in this country. You have millions of people who are purebred in dual states or who are passed who are purebred to vote. And we have 14 percent of noncitizens, according to educational research, during a minimum, are purebred to vote, that is an startling statistic.
Ugh. Miller has again resorted to fraudulent claims that we have regularly debunked.
To repeat:
A 2012 Pew Center on a States investigate found problems with fake voter registrations, people who purebred in some-more than one state (which could occur if a voter moves and registers in a new state nonetheless revelation a former state) and defunct electorate whose information was still on a voter rolls. But a primary author of a Pew news tweeted in response to Trump’s staff’s explain that he “can endorse that news done no commentary re: voter fraud.”
We found millions of out of date registration annals due to people relocating or dying, nonetheless found no justification that voter rascal resulted.
— David Becker (@beckerdavidj) November 28, 2016
As to a 14 percent figure — stemming from investigate by Old Dominion University professors, regulating information from 2008 and 2010 — that also has been skewed by Trump and his staff. They have abandoned updates and hurdles to a research. The researchers have also warned that “it is unfit to tell for certain possibly a noncitizens who responded to a consult were deputy of a broader race of noncitizens.”
One of a researchers, Jesse Richman, wrote about a Trump staff’s use of his research. The formula “suggest that roughly all elections in a US are not dynamic by noncitizen participation, with occasional and really singular intensity exceptions,” he said, observant that “there has been a bent to misread a formula as explanation of large voter fraud, that we don’t consider they are.”
In other words, a researcher whom Miller is citing says his investigate does not uncover what Miller claims.
STEPHANOPOULOS: You can’t make a — reason on a second. You only claimed again that there was bootleg voting in New Hampshire, people bused in from a state of Massachusetts. Do we have any justification to behind that up?
MILLER: I’m observant anybody — George, go to New Hampshire. Talk to anybody who has worked in politics there for a prolonged time. Everybody is wakeful of a problem in New Hampshire with honour to —
STEPHANOPOULOS: I’m seeking we as a White House comparison — reason on a second. I’m seeking we as a White House comparison process adviser. The boss done a statement, observant he was a plant of voter fraud, people are being bused from —
MILLER: And a boss — a boss — a boss was.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Do we have any evidence?
MILLER: If this is an emanate that interests you, afterwards we can speak about it some-more in a future. And we now have — a governance is commencement to get stood up. But we have a Department of Justice and we have some-more officials.
An emanate of voter rascal is something we’re going to be looking during really severely and really hard.
But a existence is, is that we know for a fact, we have large numbers of noncitizens purebred to opinion in this country. Nobody disputes that.
False. As shown above, this is doubtful even by a researcher whose work is being cited by Miller: “There has been a bent to misread a formula as explanation of large voter fraud, that we don’t consider they are.”
MILLER: And many, many rarely competent people, like Kris Kobach, a Kansas secretary of state, have looked deeply into this emanate and have reliable it to be loyal and have put together evidence.
And we advise we entice Kris Kobach onto your uncover and he can travel we by some of a justification of voter rascal in larger detail.
Miller mentioned Kobach, nonetheless a latter’s efforts during proof voter rascal have been mocked in Kansas.
In a sardonic editorial patrician “Kris Kobach is a large rascal on Kansas voter fraud,” a Kansas City Star indicted a “publicity-seeking” Kansas secretary of state of throwing out “wild claims” and wasting taxpayer supports as partial of “loathsome attacks on U.S. immigration policy.”
State Rep. John Carmichael, a Democrat, has introduced a check to frame Kobach of his prosecutorial energy since he has “dramatically farfetched a magnitude of voter rascal during his reign as Kansas’ secretary of state,” a Wichita Eagle reported in January. “Carmichael remarkable that Kobach has not brought a singular box opposite a noncitizen for voting illegally. All of a cases he has brought regard U.S. adults indicted of voting in some-more than one state.”
STEPHANOPOULOS: Just for a record, we have supposing positively no evidence. The president’s done a statement.
MILLER: The White House has supposing huge justification with honour to voter fraud, with honour to people being purebred in some-more than one state, passed people voting, noncitizens being purebred to vote. George, it is a fact and we will not repudiate it, that there are large numbers of noncitizens in this nation who are purebred to vote. That is a scandal.
As noted, a “enormous evidence” has been regularly debunked.
MILLER: We should stop a presses. And, as a country, we should be horrified about a fact that we have people who have no right to opinion in this nation purebred to vote, canceling out a authorization of official adults of this country.
That’s a story we should be articulate about. And I’m prepared to go on any show, anywhere, anytime, and repeat it and contend a boss of a United States is scold 100 percent.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, we only repeated, though, we only done those declarations. But, for a record, we have supposing 0 justification that a boss was a plant of large voter rascal in New Hampshire. You provided 0 justification that a president’s explain that he would have won a ubiquitous — a renouned opinion — if 3 million to 5 million bootleg immigrants hadn’t voted, 0 justification for possibly one of those claims.
The Pinocchio Test
Stephanopoulos is right. The White House continues to yield 0 justification to behind adult a claims of voter fraud. Officials instead shelter to a same fraudulent articulate points that have been regularly shown to be false.
It’s flattering shameless to bring investigate in a approach that even a researcher says is inappropriate, and nonetheless Miller keeps observant 14 percent of noncitizens are purebred to vote. The Republican administrator of New Hampshire has certified that he was wrong to contend buses of bootleg electorate voted in a election, and nonetheless Miller shamelessly suggests that is a case. Miller cites a ostensible consultant on voter fraud, Kobach, who has been mocked for unwell to infer his possess claims of voter fraud. Miller also repeats a explain about people being purebred to opinion in dual states, even nonetheless that is not an instance of voter fraud.
Miller earns Four Pinocchios — over and over again.
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