Harris had the smallest percent of bipartisan bills in 2019, making her the most-liberal senator by this metric. , an independent and nonpartisan group, found that Harris was the "most liberal" of her Senate colleagues in a 2019 survey, which compared the number of bipartisan bills a senator co-sponsored to the total number of bills he or she signed onto. However, that particular analysis does not consider some important caveats, the founder of the organization who conducted it told ABC News. PENCE'S CLAIM: "It's probably why Newsweek magazine said that Kamala Harris was the most liberal member of the United States Senate in 2019, more liberal than Bernie Sanders, more liberal than any of the others in the United States Senate."įACT CHECK: Harris certainly has a very liberal Senate voting record, and an analysis cited by Newsweek in 2019 did find her to be the most liberal in the U.S. Oct 08, 12:11 AM EDT FACT CHECK: Harris has liberal voting record, but Pence's claim she's 'most liberal' leaves out context Link Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Email this article Tom Ridge, a Republican who previously served as the governor of Pennsylvania and was the nation's first secretary of Homeland Security, previously told ABC News, "There is absolutely no antecedent, no factual basis for (President Donald Trump's) claim of massive fraud in mail voting." "The truth is that after decades of looking for illegal voting, there's no proof of widespread fraud." I played a central role in the 2000 Florida recount and several dozen Senate, House and state contests," he wrote. I was part of the 1990s redistricting that ended 40 years of Democratic control and brought 30 years of GOP successes in Congress and state legislatures. Before retiring from law practice last month, I spent 38 years in the GOP's legal trenches. "These are painful conclusions for me to reach. "You show them all the security measures that are in place to prevent it and detect it if it does happen."īen Ginsberg, a Republican election guru who has spent years looking for voter fraud, wrote in a Washington Post op-ed, "Four decades of dedicated investigation have produced only isolated incidents of election fraud." "How do you respond to someone that makes an allegation that there's rampant fraud?" she said. Kim Wyman, the Republican secretary of state in Washington - a state that adopted statewide mail voting in 2011 - told The New York Times in June that while any voting method could potentially be susceptible to fraud, in her experience as the chief elections official in the state, fraud with mail ballots is low. PENCE'S CLAIM: "President Trump and I are fighting every day in courthouses to prevent Joe Biden and Kamala Harris from changing the rules and creating this universal mail-in voting that will create a massive opportunity for voter fraud."įACT CHECK: Pence echoed Trump's attempts to cast doubt on the widespread embrace of vote-by-mail across the country this election by suggesting that universal mail-in voting could lead to massive fraud. Oct 08, 12:15 AM EDT FACT CHECK: Pence peddles discredited claim that universal mail-in voting leads to massive fraud Link Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Email this article
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