"Suggest to people … that if the candidate they choose does not win, it's because it's because of fraud, that undermines our democracy." That undermines people's faith and once that faith is broken, it's very difficult to build again, "Ellen Weintraub told CNN's John Berman on New Day.
"The facts matter, and the Americans must be able to believe what their leaders are saying to them." It is prejudicial to our democracy to disseminate information that … is baseless, "she said.
Last week, Weintraub, who often criticized Trump's election fraud charges, wrote to the president asking him to provide evidence of election fraud that he said had caused him to lose the state of New Hampshire. three years ago. The letter was sent a day after Trump complained to reporters – and his supporters at a rally in Manchester, New Hampshire – to loosely lose the Granite State due to a vote fraudulent, a claim for which there is no evidence. Trump beat his Republican rivals at the New Hampshire primary in 2016, but lost all four of the state's electoral votes against Democrat Hillary Clinton in November by less than 3,000 votes.
On Sunday, Trump repeated his accusations of election fraud, saying that the now-dissolved commission, created to investigate the electoral integrity, has not found evidence of widespread electoral fraud, had been blocked by "California and other states".
Forty-four states and the District of Columbia – including California – have refused to provide certain types of voter information to the commission on electoral integrity, according to a CNN survey sent to the 50 states. July 2017.
"And the reason they did not give up the information, it's because they were guilty, they were guilty, and they know they're guilty." Many people voted Without voting, some people have voted many times, "he told reporters on a tarmac in New Jersey before boarding Air Force One to return to Washington.
Weintraub said in her interview with "New Day" that she had not yet received a response from the White House about her letter and that if the president provided proof of her claims, " we must really take action to remedy that. "
The chair of the FEC is a one-year post that runs between the members of the commission. The six-member commission currently has two vacant positions, often in partisan stalemate over important enforcement issues.
Weintraub used his position at the helm of the commission this year to challenge Trump's claims. In June, she warned that it was "illegal for anyone to solicit, accept, or receive anything of value" from a stranger in a US election, after Trump announced that he would listen to the offer from a foreign government regarding a political competitor. .
Fredreka Schouten and Clare Foran from CNN contributed to this report.
