During an appearance on CNN early Saturday morning, a member of the New Hampshire GOP Executive Committee smirked and blew off accusations from Donald Trump that the Republican primary vote in her state will be tainted.
Speaking with host Victor Blackwell, Juliana Bergeron made a point of stating that this is not the first time the former president has lied about election fraud.
"The former president has said several times that Democrats, in his characterization, are going to infiltrate the Republican primary," the CNN host prompted. "Of course registered Democrats cannot vote in the Republican primary, only the undeclared can. The breakdown here: 344,000 registered as undeclared, 270,000 registered as Republicans. The governor says that just before the deadline to switch party registration, about 4,000 Democrats moved to undeclared or Republican. Do they play any significant role here, considering those numbers?"
"They always play a significant role in New Hampshire," Bergeron dryly replied. "The Republicans — either the Republicans or the Democrats can't win an election without pulling the independents in the state, so they'll be the deciding factor here, I think."
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"You know, at this point there's not a real race on the Democrat's side, so more of them are going to be voting Republican this side, and I think more of them will be voting for Nikki [Haley]. I think she's picking up Chris Christie's people and I think she has a greater following here in New Hampshire than she had in Iowa."
"The 344,000 undeclared. When the former president says that Democrats are infiltrating the Republican primary, your reaction to that characterization?" host Blackwell pressed.
"Yeah, no,' she laughed before adding, "I don't think that's true. I don't think that's true. I think it's another made-up story. I don't know how much we can believe of what the former president says anyway, but this is just another exaggeration."
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