Top Republicans defend Trump on baseless voter fraud claims as concerns grow in the ranks
Top Republicans are defending President Donald Trump's baseless claims of voter fraud and a rigged election even as some rank-and-file congressional Republicans have spoken out against the President's latest remarks.
Speaking from the White House Thursday, the President repeated his false claims that a count of legally cast ballots would show him winning the presidential race and said at one point, "This is a case where they're trying to steal an election. They're trying to rig an election."
Some prominent Republicans, including members of House and Senate leadership, are backing the President in the aftermath of the address.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, a close ally of the President and chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, defended Trump on Thursday evening and echoed his baseless claims of voter fraud. "I'm here tonight to stand with President Trump," the South Carolina Republican, who was reelected Tuesday, told Fox News' Sean Hannity.
House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy of California did not respond to a request for comment from CNN, but in an interview Thursday evening with Fox News' Laura Ingraham he similarly echoed the President's meritless assertions of fraud and warned Americans to be on guard.
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