Trump’s campaign and the Republican Party collected $255 million in two months, saying the money would support legal challenges to an election marred by fraud. Eshelman also alleges that True the Vote directed much of his money to people or businesses connected to the group’s president, Catherine Engelbrecht. ADTrue the Vote has spent the past decade aggressively promoting claims of voter fraud and pushing for voter-identification laws. AD“I thought about the range of possibilities around vote fraud,” Eshelman said in an interview with The Washington Post. While it scrutinized the accounts of purported whistleblowers, True the Vote also sought to prove fraud through data analysis.

Source: Washington Post February 15, 2021 18:22 UTC