Fox host defends Trump coup attempt: “There are so many Republicans that feel like it was rigged”
Ainsley Earhardt: “I think people who are staunch conservatives in our country just feel so, just so defeated because of this election. They do feel like it was rigged.”
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Citation From the January 4, 2021, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends
AINSLEY EARHARDT (CO-HOST): The election integrity is extremely important. In fact it's necessary. And there are so many Republicans that feel like it was rigged, they're hearing the president say that, they believe it was rigged. You hear people saying that they got dead people's ballots. They got -- I heard one lady say she got four ballots in the mail, two of them were for the people who lived in her house before, and both of them are dead. She could have easily -- if she had done the wrong thing, it's illegal -- she could have voted illegally. She didn't do that, but so many people have questions. Integrity is so important. And there are these battleground states where they changed the laws, they changed the rules at the last minute, and people have a problem with that. And they're worried that if they don't do something about it now, this will continue and mail-in ballots will continue in the next election.
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EARHARDT: I think people who are staunch conservatives in our country just feel so, just so defeated because of this election. They do feel like it was rigged. And then to see what's happening in Georgia, that the Democrats could have the House, Democrats could have the Senate, and then the presidency, it's disheartening for a lot of people.