WASHINGTON — White House advisor Stephen Miller doubled down on President Trump’s unsubstantiated claims that thousands of voters were bused from Massachusetts to New Hampshire in November to cost him the win.
“I can tell you that this issue of busing voters in to New Hampshire is widely known by anyone who’s worked in New Hampshire politics,” Miller, senior policy advisor, told ABC’s “This Week.” “It’s very real, it’s very serious.”
Asked for evidence on the New Hampshire fraud, Miller said: “Everybody’s aware of the problem in New Hampshire.”
Trump claimed in a private meeting with senators Thursday that he and GOP Sen. Kelly Ayotte lost New Hampshire because “thousands” of Massachusetts were bused into the state and voted“illegally.”
A member of the Federal Elections Commission, Ellen Weintraub, said Friday the scheme Trump alleges would constitute “thousands of felony criminal offenses” and called on Trump to “immediately share his evidence.”
Asked repeatedly proof, Miller said voter fraud is a serious issue and will be evaluated by Justice Department once it’s up and running.
“We can talk about it more in the future and we now have our government beginning to get stood up, but we have a Department of Justice and we have more officials. An issue of voter fraud, someone is going to be looking at very seriously and very hard,” Miller said.
An exasperated host George Stephanopoulos responded: “Just for the record, you have provided absolutely no evidence.”
Miller didn’t provide any details about Trump’s serious allegations in New Hampshire but made sweeping statements, much like his boss.
“The White House has provided enormous evidence with respect to voter fraud, with respect to people being registered in more than one state,” Miller said. “Dead people voting, non-citizens being registered to vote. George, it is a fact and you will not deny it that are massive numbers of non-citizens in this country who are registered to vote.”
It’s not uncommon or illegal to be registered in two different states – such as Trump advisor Stephen Bannon voted in New York while still being registered in Florida. What is illegal is voting in two different states.
President Trump was pleased with Miller’s Sunday show responses.
“Congratulations Stephen Miller- on representing me this morning on the various Sunday morning shows. Great job!,” Trump tweeted.
Secretaries of state throughout the country stood by their elections are free and fair and have repeatedly said there’s no evidence of widespread voter fraud that changed the outcome of the presidential election.
Trump said in a Super Bowl interview on Fox News he’d start a commission headed by Vice President Mike Pence to look into voter fraud. The president previously said – without evidence – the only reason he lost the popular vote Hillary Clinton was that millions of undocumented people voted illegally.
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