( George Stephanopoulos during an interview with Trump adviser Stephen Miller. ABC)
ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos grilled President Donald Trump's top policy adviser in a testy Sunday exchange over the president's unfounded voter fraud claims.
During an interview on "This Week," host Stephanopoulos pressed Stephen Miller to provide evidence for Trump's unfounded allegations this week that voters were bused into New Hampshire from Massachusetts during the 2016 election, costing him and former Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte the state.
Without evidence, Miller suggested that there was voter fraud not only in the 2016 campaign, but in other New Hampshire races as well, suggesting that the ABC anchor "talk to anybody who's worked in politics there for a long time."
"Having worked before on a campaign in New Hampshire, 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 said. "It’s very real, it’s very serious. This morning on this show is not the venue for me lay out all the evidence, but I can tell you this: Voter fraud is a serious problem in this country."
After Miller continued to insist that New Hampshire was a hotbed for voter fraud activity, the ABC anchor pointed out that the adviser offered no evidence that there was voter fraud.
"Hold a second. I’m asking you as the White House senior policy adviser, the president made a statement saying he was the victim of voter fraud," Stephanopoulos said. "Do you have any evidence?"
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Trump's adviser suggested instead that "if this is an issue that interests you, then we can talk about it more in the future," Stephanopoulos should "invite Kris Kobach onto your show and he can walk you through some of the evidence of voter fraud."
Kobach, Kansas' secretary of state and prominent a Trump-backer, previously cited a 2012 Pew Research Center study that found that million voter registrations were outdated in 2008. The author of the study, often cited by Trump administration officials as proof of the president's claim, said last year that the researchers "found millions of out of date registration records due to people moving or dying, but found no evidence that voter fraud resulted."
When Stephanopoulos told Miller "you have provided absolutely no evidence" to support his claims, the policy adviser interjected, claiming the administration "provided enormous evidence," insisting that outdated voter registration roles were evidence of fraud, and claiming that immigrants living in the US without permission were voting en masse.