The Republican Party employed the claim that undocumented people were illegally voting in 2015.
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Robinson's PodcastSep 23, 2026
Sources show Republican figures making the claim that undocumented immigrants vote illegally in the years around 2015: Snopes reports Trump made such claims from a 2014 tweet onward, and Boston Review says Republican Kobach claimed alien voting was 'pervasive' during the Obama years.
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… I do discuss on how propaganda works. I discuss the, ah, the fiction of voter fraud, so I talk about how few cases of in-person voter fraud there have been over decades in all elections. So the the Republicans already, in 2015, were employing this global fascist strategy of of claiming that undocumented people in the United States were illegally voting. They were employing that, so I discuss that at length, that fiction, and how, ah, and that we still see today, of course, it's the signature undermining propaganda of the Trump regime, which is to say, we're protecting elections, we're protecting democracy, …
Robinson's Podcast · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. Snopes (2024) reports Trump has publicly stated or implied that undocumented immigrants were voting illegally for at least a decade, including an October 2014 tweet.[1]
Supports. Boston Review reports that Kobach, a Republican, tied GOP voter-fraud claims to anti-immigrant politics and claimed voting by 'aliens' was 'pervasive' during the Obama years.[2]
Context. The New Yorker (2024) describes the claim as a long-running Trump position that had become the explicit position of the party establishment by 2024, a later development than 2015.[3]
Context. Brennan Center and Politifact-style sources show the claim was repeatedly made and examined, with actual noncitizen voting found to be extremely rare, but they do not address what Republicans said in 2015 specifically.[4][5]
Sources
5 sources: 1 fact-checker, 4 not rated
- 1Large Numbers of Noncitizens Don't Vote in US Electionssnopes.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2Trumpism Before Trump - Boston Reviewbostonreview.net · not rated · cited for: supports
- 3How Trump Hopes to Exploit the Myth of Voter Fraud in Novembernewyorker.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 4Noncitizen Voting is Vanishingly Rare - Brennan Center for ...brennancenter.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 5Did 3 million undocumented immigrants vote in presidential election?miamiherald.com · not rated · cited for: context
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