RNC Chair Bluntly Shoots Down Trump’s Election Fraud Claims: ‘The President Can Tell Stories’

Republican National Committee Co-Chair Michael Whatley offered a blunt assessment of former President Donald Trump’s recent claim that he would win California if only elections were “honest.”

Whatley told local Fox LA anchor Elex Michaelson about the RNC’s efforts to recruit poll watchers, “We want to make sure that we have volunteers and attorneys that are there any time votes are being cast or counted.”

“Should people trust that their vote is going to be counted fairly in California?” asked Michaelson.

“Yeah, and that’s why we want to be here. And the thing about California law is it does allow anybody who is interested in serving in that capacity to go serve in that capacity, which I think is really good,” replied Whatley.

“Whatley’s comments, just days after Doctor Phil aired this interview with former President Trump,” Michaelson then said in a voiceover before playing the clip of Trump saying:

If Jesus came down and was the vote counter, I would win California. Okay. In other words, if we had an honest vote counter.

“What does that mean?” Michaelson asked.

“Well, I think that he feels like California, there are a lot of Republicans and there are a lot of votes here. I think he was probably, you know, a little bit of a stretch,” Whatley replied.

“Trump lost here by close to 5 million votes. Do you have evidence that he actually won this state, that there were 5 million more people that voted for him that weren’t counted?” Michaelson followed up.

“No,” said Whatley.

“So that claim about Jesus is…” Michaelson asked as Whatley interjected, “You know, we’ll see. You know, I mean, the president can tell stories at any time, but that’s look, I think the key is that we want to make the point that it is very important for us to have election security protection in place, that we are going to protect the ballot.”

“There is danger, isn’t there, of some people hearing that from the president, thinking they don’t count my vote? It’s not fair. And then they don’t vote and then you could lose,” Michaelson noted.

“Right. That’s why we set this program up. That’s exactly the conversation that we are having,” Whatley replied.

Watch the full clip above.