CNN host Jake Tapper struck a softer tone on whether there was fraud in the 2020 election, disputing claims that no fraud took place.
Tapper, responding to guest Stacey Abrams, who said no fraud took place in the last presidential election, stated it was clear that some took place, giving examples to back up his assertion.
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“We shouldn’t say there is no fraud; there is no significant fraud, but there, obviously, has been some fraud here and there,” Tapper said on State of the Union on Sunday. “I know at least two or three Trump voters in Pennsylvania who voted for their dead parents, so there has been some fraud. Just not anything that would change the course of the election.”
Tapper previously criticized a number of lawsuits led by the Trump campaign, alleging they had no evidence to prove any cases of voter fraud.
“It’s been frankly embarrassing. No evidence, unprofessional, desperate,” Tapper said during his show in November, referring to the legal challenges.
The host also accused former President Donald Trump of spreading a “deranged conspiracy theory” that millions of votes were changed by voting systems.
“The problem with Republican officeholders arguing that President Trump has the right to present his evidence in court is that the president’s efforts do not have anything to do with evidence,” Tapper said at the time.
A month later, however, the host did allude to instances of fraud in the aftermath of the election, including sharing an article of a voter casting an absentee ballot for Trump by using his deceased mother’s name.
D.A. charges voter fraud in Pennsylvania; man successfully cast an absentee ballot for outgoing President Trump in the name of his long-dead mother.https://t.co/eTVGGHQjuM
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 22, 2020
The 2020 election led to the argument by Trump and GOP allies that fraud helped ensure a Biden presidency, claiming Trump was the true victor. The former president alluded to this claim again in his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference last month.
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A number of cybersecurity and legal experts, as well as government officials in and out of the Trump administration, said there was no evidence that widespread fraud took place.
Since the election, a number of GOP-led state legislatures have pushed to increase voting security, advocating for methods such as voter ID requirements.
