GOP lawyer: ‘Still no evidence of a result of any election being incorrect’

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Republican election lawyer Ben Ginsberg disputed President Trump’s revived claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential race during his primetime address Thursday evening.

The White House touted “breaking news” on the state of election security in the U.S. ahead of Trump’s speech Thursday. His administration released a trove of files it alleged substantiated the president’s repeated claims that the election was “rigged.”

“What stood out to me is there is still no evidence of the result of any election being incorrect,” Ginsberg told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins following Trump’s address. “There still were not the documents, there still was not the evidence, although we’ll see what’s produced.”

Ginsberg is a retired partner at Patton Boggs and Jones Day who has served as national counsel to several Republican presidential campaigns.

Several independent experts who reviewed the White House documents found no new revelatory claims to support the president’s claims of widespread fraud.

The Associated Press reported the speech “did not produce evidence that votes had been manipulated or that the election outcome had been altered.”

While Ginsberg acknowledged that the U.S.’s election process is “not a perfect system,” he also called on the Trump administration to take on a “bit of leadership” to address these weaknesses.

“Elections are notoriously underfunded,” he told CNN. “And so, if you want to fix the vulnerabilities, there should be a lot of federal money going out to states and localities to actually succeed in doing that.”

Sean Spicer, a former White House press secretary under Trump’s first term, similarly criticized the administration for not providing guidance for how to solve these stated weaknesses in the country’s election system.

“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 Friday morning on NewsNation. “I don’t know that he gave a lot of people that.”

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