WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Tuesday that the widespread voter fraud he’d warned about all year turned out not to be a problem in last week’s elections that Republicans happened to win.
“I’m happy to report to you that because of all the emphasis we placed on that, and because of all the attention the American people put on it, that I think we were able to limit, to a high degree, the amount of fraud and irregularity and many of the things that concerned all Americans after 2020,” Johnson said in response to a question from HuffPost.
Johnson spoke in front of the House steps, at a lectern adorned with a “New Day in America” sign, as Republicans are on the verge of controlling both Congress and the White House following last week’s decisive victory by former president Donald Trump and Republicans in Senate and House races.
In May, speaking at the same location, Johnson had warned that voting by undocumented immigrants presented an…
