President Trump continues to believe millions of people may have voted illegally in the 2016 election, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Monday, despite the lack of any evidence to suggest widespread voter fraud occurred.
“The president still feels there was a large amount of voter fraud,” Sanders told reporters at the White House on Monday.
Trump revived his theory that millions of illegal ballots cost him the national popular vote in the presidential race when he claimed during an event in West Virginia last week that “in many places like California, the same person votes many times.”
Sanders said the administration could never prove or debunk the president’s suspicion about voter fraud because many states refused to cooperate with the election integrity commission Trump created last year to investigate the system.
The commission disbanded amid infighting and its inability to force states to hand over voter data.
