Sen. Mitt Romney condemned baseless claims of election fraud as “stupidly self-defeating and despicable” on the heels of Tuesday’s midterm that left Republicans and Democrats waiting to see who will control Congress.
Doubts sown by both parties about the integrity of elections must be addressed, the Utah Republican wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed Thursday.
“It comes mostly from the GOP, but Democrats aren’t without sin,” he said, adding that despite some irregularities in any election, there is no evidence of organized fraud or voter suppression that would have changed the outcome of a recent state or federal race.
In a tweet linked to the op-ed, Romney called out the “pervasive” trend of election denying.
“The world is in a pitched battle between authoritarianism and democracy, and the bad guys are winning. Spouting baseless claims of voter fraud is self-defeating and imperils democracy here and abroad,” he said.
In the op-ed, Romney wrote that the world looks to the United States as a model of free and fair elections.
“If we don’t have faith in our own system, how can we expect democracy to work elsewhere?” he wrote. “While authoritarians in Russia and China are advertising an alternative to government of, by and for the people, spouting evidence-free claims of election fraud is stupidly self-defeating and despicable.”
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