The Trump administration claimed 15,908 non-citizens were voting in Nevada, which was later reduced to 185, and all 185 were revealed to be citizens.
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Deadline: White HouseOct 22, 2026
The sources support the core of the claim: DHS first said about 15,900 Nevada registrants were noncitizens, cut that to 185 after manual review, and Nevada officials said all 185 were citizens.
What was said
… That's the sort of dichotomy that you need there. I mean, the reality is, every time you look under the hood in one of these, like, phenomenally trumpeted Trump administration raids on the voter rolls, there's nothing there. Like, in the state of Nevada, the administration claimed 15,908 non-citizens voting. Then that number dwindled to a hundred and 85, and then all one hundred and eighty-five zero people were revealed to be citizens. So, like, they don't have anything, and the lower courts have been united, effectively and basically giving Trump the hand. There's always a Supreme Court, you know, and I think that it's a good thing that the lower courts have acted so unanimously. …
Deadline: White House · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. The New York Times reported that DHS sent Nevada a list of 185 names claimed to be noncitizens, and the state replied that every person on the list was a lawful citizen.[1]
Supports. Federal Judge David Carter's ruling quotes DHS initially identifying up to 15,903 Nevada registered voters as noncitizens, reducing that to 185 after manual review, and states that Nevada officials confirmed all 185 were citizens.[2]
Supports. CNN and Reason both report the drop from about 15,900 to 185 and that the 185 were citizens, with Reason noting that every one of them was a U.S. citizen.[3][4]
Contradicts. The figure in the post (15,908) differs slightly from the 15,903 cited in the judge's ruling and CNN; other outlets round to about 15,000 or 16,000, so the gap is within rounding.[2][3]
Context. The DOJ attorney disputed that Nevada's citizenship determinations constitute proof, saying they rested on voter attestations, so the 'revealed to be citizens' point is the state's position rather than an independently verified finding.[3]
Context. The sources describe the original DHS figure as noncitizens registered to vote or on the voter rolls, not as people who actually voted; the post's 'voting' wording is loose but does not change the reduction-to-185 story.[1][4]
Sources
4 sources: 4 tier 2
- 1From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting ...nytimes.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports, context
- 2Judge declines to block California from counting alleged noncitizen voters’ ballots in DOJ lawsuitnbcnews.com · tier 2 · cited for: contradicts, supports
- 3Inside the Trump administration’s lists of alleged noncitizen ...cnn.com · tier 2 · cited for: contradicts, supports, context
- 4Trump's claims about noncitizen voting are 'not credible,' a federal judge says in a scathing decisionreason.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports, context
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