Trump Slams States for Pushing Back on Panel's Voter-Data Demand
- Refusal to comply stretches from Mississippi to California
- Democratic senator says ‘no legal basis’ for data request
Voters wait in line to cast their ballots at the Venice Beach lifeguard station polling location in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016. Americans streamed to the polls under clear skies in much of the country Tuesday to bring the presidential election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump to a close -- and to signal whether they want to preserve the U.S. political establishment or blow it up.
Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/BloombergPresident Donald Trump fired off a tweet Saturday aimed at the growing number of secretaries of state resisting a broad request for data by his voter-fraud commission, including officials from deep red states whose support the controversy-laden White House can ill afford to lose.
“Numerous states are refusing to give information to the very distinguished VOTER FRAUD PANEL,” Trump tweeted of officials from more than 20 states who so far have questioned the panel’s request. “What are they trying to hide?” Indiana, home of Vice President Mike Pence, and Mississippi, a state that voted heavily for the president, are among those states.