‘They also create phony ballots’: Trump repeats election lies at Fox town hall

Donald Trump on Tuesday doubled down on election denialism during a Fox News town hall, accusing Democrats without evidence of “creating phony ballots.”

Trump was responding to a question from host Sean Hannity about his support for early voting and voter ID at the Grand Rapids, Iowa, town hall, when the former president asserted the baseless claims.

“I have to say that something else because the one thing that a lot of people think is important that even you don’t talk about. They also create phony ballots. And that's a real problem. That's my opinion. They created a lot of phony ballots,” Trump said.

“For some reason Republicans always wanted to go out on Tuesday and they wanted to vote I respect that. I think it's great. And it would be great if we could get back to one day and we all the things that you said with one with voter ID, with voter ID, because the Democrats don't want verification."

Trump added:

“How about this, they don't want voter ID because they want to cheat you know, they want to cheat they don't want voter ID. Even the Democrats, regular Democrat people want voter ID, but the leaders don't because they can cheat. The one thing we have to be very careful of is phony ballots Sean. Everything you say is great, but they create balance. That's my opinion. And that's the opinion of a lot of people.”