When he was running for office in 2018, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose said overblown election claims by Democrats and Republicans hurt Americans’ faith in democracy. Democrats overhype what they call voter suppression and Republicans overblow claims of voter fraud, LaRose said at the time.
Now that he’s running for reelection, LaRose, a Republican, is singing a different tune. He went so far last week as to claim that former President Trump — who has relentlessly lied about voter fraud and tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election — has a point.
LaRose took to Twitter to accuse the media of unfairly downplaying the threat of voter fraud.
“Here they go again,” LaRose tweeted. “Mainstream media trying to minimize voter fraud to suit their narrative.”
Here they go again. Mainstream media trying to minimize voter fraud to suit their narrative. The Hill uses a press release from my office to falsely claim “there’s nothing to see here – move along.” WRONG! pic.twitter.com/9I08kIWh0R
LaRose followed that with a series of tweets in which he played up referrals of possible voting crimes that his office made to Attorney General Dave Yost. Then LaRose wrote this about voter fraud elsewhere: “It’s an even bigger problem in other states where laws & leaders are weak. President Trump is right to say voter fraud is a serious problem. More to come.”
That’s a far cry from what LaRose was saying on the campaign trail in 2018.
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