In a Thursday statement, the National Council on Election Integrity (NCEI) said that President Donald Trump‘s remarks from the White House, in which Trump alleged fraud in the 2020 presidential election, were “irresponsible.”
The bipartisan NCEI counts among its 44 members former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and former Secretary of Defense Democrat Leon Panetta. Trump raised some eyebrows with his Thursday remarks in which he claimed that the Democrats were trying to “steal” the presidential election in favor of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. Trump particularly criticized the process through which some states are conducting the tabulations of mail-in ballots.
“They are trying to rig an election,” Trump said. “We can’t let that happen.”
In its statement, the NCEI said that Trump’s allegations had “no basis.”
