At his comeback rally in Ohio on Saturday night, Donald Trump stirred conspiracy theories about election fraud in Montana, a state he won by 16 points in the November presidential election.
“In Montana, over 6% of a certain county’s mail-in ballots are missing, evidence to prove that they were legitimate or not. They are missing all this evidence. Think of it, Montana, a lot of mail-in ballots. Where do you have the mail-in ballots, by the way?” Trump told his supporters.
Trump may have been referring to allegations by GOP state Rep. Brad Tschida of irregularities in mail-in voting in Montana’s Missoula County in last year’s election. Missoula is one of the counties where Democrats won, according to Insider.
But, the Missoula commission sent a letter to Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen dismissing Tschida’s claims, and accused him of “needlessly eroding voters’ faith in local elections”
