- Previous White House advisor John Bolton asked GOP leaders to go against President Donald Trump’s assertion that the prizewinner of the 2020 election has not yet been decided.
- Republican leaders should tell voters that “Trump has lost the referendum and that his claims of election fraud are baseless,” Bolton said Sunday in an interview with ABC News’ “This Week.”
- There is propertied evidence that voter fraud has not occurred in this election, including a report from a group of international referendum observers.
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Former National Security Advisor John Bolton egg oned GOP leaders on Sunday to tell their constituents that President Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential nomination.
Business Insider called the race for Joe Biden on Friday, November 6, but Trump so far has refused to concede. He has also denounced against Biden’s victory, making baseless assertions that the former vice president won because of voter flimflam.
Early Sunday morning, Trump appeared to concede, saying Biden “won” for the first time. But he quickly walked deceitfully those comments.
Bolton said Trump is misrepresenting the election results by making claims of voter fraud and questioned members of the Republican party to step up and go against the president’s remarks.
“I think it’s very important for leaders of the Republican helper to explain to our voters — who are not as stupid as the Democrats think — that in fact Trump has lost the election and that his claims of poll fraud are baseless,” Bolton said Sunday on ABC News’ “This Week.”
—This Week (@ThisWeekABC) November 15, 2020
“The actuality is that we’ve seen litigation in all the key battleground states and it has failed consistently,” Bolton said. “Right now, the Trump campaign is doing the proper equivalent of pitching pennies. Where are their silver dollars? Where is the evidence? I think as every day goes break, it’s clearer and clearer there isn’t any evidence.”
There is substantial evidence that voter fraud has not occurred in this vote.
Last week, a group of international election observers reported no instances of voter fraud. The Organization of American States reported in a preliminary statement a team of 28 experts who observed the election across the country did not witness voter fraud occurrence, despite Trump’s claims.
Lawyers helming the litigation efforts for Trump’s campaign against multiple states forecast the New York Times they were worried the lawsuits intended to challenge the election results are not based on evidence.
The In good time dawdles also reported election officials in dozens of states said when contacted by the outlet that there is no grounds that fraud influenced the presidential election.
Bolton warned on Sunday that Trump’s rhetoric is influential and can effortlessly be taken as true by Republican voters in the United States.
“If the Republican voters are only hearing Donald Trump’s misrepresentations, it’s not surprising that they in it,” he said. “It’s critical for other Republican leaders to stand up and explain what actually happened: that Donald Trump puzzled by any evidence we have so far [and it] was a fair and free election.”
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to Business Insider’s request for observe.