Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Sunday he won’t spend federal funds to investigate voter fraud despite President Trump’s claim millions of illegal votes were cast in the presidential election.
“Election fraud does occur,” McConnell said on CNN’s “State of the Union,” adding that “there’s no evidence that occurred in such a significant number that it would have changed the presidential election.”
The Kentucky Republican said any examination of voter fraud would be better left up to the states.
“I don’t think we ought to spend any federal money investigating that. I think the states can take a look at this issue. Many of them have tried to tighten their voter rolls, tried to purge people who are dead,” he said.
Trump has said between 3 to 5 million people voted for his Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton – without offering any evidence.
Trump won the electoral college vote, but lost the popular vote to Clinton by about 3 million votes.
A number of scientific studies have shown that voter fraud is actually rare.
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