Rob Portman (R-Ohio), at another point, floated a bipartisan commission to look at the issue ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. Portman’s call for a bipartisan commission was particularly striking, given that he’s generally regarded as one of the more pragmatic Republican senators. The allegations of massive voter fraud in the 2020 election, though, don’t track with either of those precedents. Trump’s allies like to compare the voter-fraud push to the Russia investigation. And there is a very receptive audience for this, particularly in GOP primaries, despite the lack of evidence.

Source: Washington Post December 16, 2020 21:41 UTC