Mike Johnson Pleased To Report Election Not Tainted By Fraud This Time

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday that the widespread voter fraud he’d warned about all year turned out not to be a problem in last week’s elections that Republicans happened to win. Johnson spoke in front of the House steps, at a lectern adorned with a “New Day in America” sign, as Republicans are on the verge of controlling both Congress and the White House following last week’s decisive victory by former president Donald Trump and Republicans in Senate and House races. In May, speaking at the same location, Johnson had warned that voting by undocumented immigrants presented an “unprecedented and a clear and present danger to the integrity of our election system.” On Tuesday, he said noncitizens may have voted “in some places around the country,” but that it wasn’t a problem for the election results thanks to efforts by state lawmakers and Republican poll watchers. It’s not clear if Republicans’ “America First” agenda will also include the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, the bill Johnson and Trump said before the election was necessary to prevent Democrats from committing massive voter fraud.