Spicer: ‘A lot of negative comments’ from MAGA faithful after Trump address

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Sean Spicer, a White House press secretary in President Trump’s first administration, acknowledged negative reactions from some in the Republican Party to the president’s Thursday speech about U.S. election security and said Trump should’ve presented more of a path forward.

“I saw a lot of negative comments from the MAGA faithful saying, ‘What else can we be doing? What else are we doing?’” Spicer said on NewsNation’s “Morning in America” on Friday, using the acronym for Trump’s campaign tagline “Make America Great Again.”

“Raising an issue and not having a solution is a bit of a problem,” he added.

Spicer has supported Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. During his speech on Thursday evening, the president called on Republican lawmakers to push through his top legislative priority, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act.

This legislation would require Americans to provide proof of citizenship when registering to vote and an ID when casting ballots at polling sites. Democrats say these new requirements would disenfranchise many voters.

While Spicer expressed his support for passing the bill, he said Republicans “need a more concrete path of how to do it.”

“When you tell someone that there’s a major problem, we need to have a solution, we need to have a path forward,” Spicer said. “I don’t know that he gave a lot of people that, aside from just saying pass the SAVE Act, and even on that front we’ve been doing, and talking about that on the right for a while.”

Democrats slammed the president’s claims of widespread election fraud on Thursday evening, with all 24 Democratic governors calling his address “deeply alarming” in a joint statement.

“No amount of lies and conspiracy theories can change the fact that our country’s elections have repeatedly been proven to be safe and secure,” they said. “These attacks are intended to intimidate and silence voters.”

The Democratic leaders vowed to “fight back against the Trump administration and stop any and all unlawful attacks on every American’s constitutional right to vote.”

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