Trump’s 2020 election claims repeatedly debunked as Georgia search escalates effort

The New York Times reported on Jan. 29, 2026, that more than five years after the 2020 election Mr. Trump and his administration continue to pursue claims of widespread voter fraud, and that F.B.I. agents in Fulton County, Ga., recently searched an election center for 2020 ballots and voting records.

The Times notes that President Biden won Georgia, Arizona and other swing states, and that top Georgia officials have repeatedly said Mr. Trump lost. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s top election official, said multiple times that Mr. Trump lost the state, and Gov. Brian Kemp wrote on social media in 2023 that no one had come forward under oath to prove fraud.

In Arizona, Rusty Bowers told Congress he rejected efforts to overturn the result, writing in his journal, "I do not want to be a winner by cheating," according to his testimony. The paper reported that William P. Barr, Mr. Trump’s attorney general in 2020, testified in 2022 that the Justice Department had found no widespread voter fraud and that he told the White House the election theories were baseless, saying the claims were "crazy stuff" and a "grave, grave disservice to the country." Vice President Mike Pence refused pressure to overturn the certification on Jan.

6, 2021, and has since said Mr. Trump lost the 2020 election, telling audiences in 2023 that "the Georgia election was not stolen and I had no right to overturn the election on Jan.

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