Trump's own FBI director contradicts his election attacks
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/no-coordinated-national-voter-fraud-effort-fbi-director-says/ar-BB19o750
Republicans are largely silent, but Trump is getting pushback from at least one person inside his administration when it comes to his attacks on the 2020 election. His FBI Director.
Now, we have not seen, historically, any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election, whether it's by mail or otherwise," he said before a Senate panel in response to a question on whether voting by mail is secure.
However, there has been voter fraud at the local level "from time to time," Wray told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee during a hearing on threats to the homeland, adding that the FBI takes seriously the responsibility to investigate such fraud.
"Certainly to change a federal election outcome by mounting that kind of fraud at scale would be a major challenge for an adversary, but people should make no mistake, we're vigilant as to the threat and watching it carefully because we're in an uncharted new territory," he said.
At a House hearing last week, Wray said that Russia has been "very active" in its efforts to influence US elections, with the primary goal being to "denigrate" Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, echoing the intelligence community's public assessment of Moscow's meddling efforts issued last month.