Elections Reality Project
Elections Reality Project
Although New Statecraft Institute is avowedly moderate and strenuously opposes toxic partisanship, we are equally committed to enhancing legitimacy and trust in government institutions and ensuring that accurate information empowers a truthfully informed democratic process.
The 2024 election subjected every American voter to a scale of disinformation unprecedented in our nation's history, with President Trump alleging that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him via massive fraud. The Institute set forth to compellingly refute this remarkably destructive delusion.
In the years between the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections, the Institute assembled and published an authoritative compendium of public statements by the most broadly respected individuals and organizations across the ideological spectrum attacking the lie: elected officials, leaders from public policy institutes, journalists, academics, and verifiers from the states and counties where Trump alleges that fraud was perpetrated. It deliberately includes a large number of those with conservative or Republican backgrounds.
Amazingly, Trump continues to propagate the myth that American elections are fraudulent. His false narrative remains remarkably persuasive: barely half of independents and only 18% of Republicans agree that Joe Biden won the presidency legitimately (e.g., SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, November 2025). Unfortunately combatting Trump's dishonesty regarding elections remains a problem of overarching importance in determining whether truth or disinformation will prevail in American democracy and around the world.
Expand the Project
Four ways to expand the Project
The Institute seeks to expand the power of the Elections Reality Project in American politics in four distinct ways.
- Additional funding would enable the inclusion of further corroboration by leading publications from around the world, which are virtually unanimous in their repudiation of the Trump election fraud lies.
- Additional funding could enable more robust documentation from presidential and senatorial swing-seat races — creating a new database devoted just to PA or WI, for example — to educate these pivotal voter bases.
- The Institute's in-house list of truth-tellers is substantially longer than the published list, and we hope to refine and expand the published list accordingly.
- Additional funding would enable inclusion of the video or audio and the full transcription of the statements currently cited in the database to maximize impact on all future voters.
Strengthening the Elections Reality Project as the definitive resource combatting this disinformation looms large in better securing the future of democracy in America and worldwide.
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Public statements by category
The Elections Reality Project definitively establishes that the outcome of the 2020 American presidential election was not determined by fraud. Immediately below is an excerpted sample of individuals and organizations (listed by category) who have admirably rebutted the lie. Following that is a much longer alphabetical list of verbatim public statements by admired individuals and organizations from across the political spectrum, which can be downloaded as a PDF.
TRUMP STAFF & ADVISORS
- Steve Bannon
- William Barr
- John Bolton
- Ty Cobb
- Kellyanne Conway
- Richard Donaghue
- Jenna Ellis
- Mark Esper
- Alyssa Farah Griffin
- Stephanie Grisham
- Alina Habba
- Eric Herschman
- Cassidy Hutchinson
- Gen. John Kelly (ret.)
- Chris Krebs
- Ronna McDaniel
- Gen. H.R. McMaster (ret.)
- Mark Meadows
- Gen. Mark Millley (ret.)
- Mick Mulvaney
- Mike Pence
- Sidney Powell
- Dan Scavino
- Bill Stepien
- Ivanka Trump
- John Yoo
REPUBLICAN OFFICIALS
- John Boehner
- George W. Bush
- Dick Cheney
- Michael Chertoff
- Chris Christie
- Dan Coates
- Wiliam Cohen
- John Cornyn
- Tom Cotton
- John Danforth
- Ron Desantis
- Mike Dewine
- Bob Dole
- Geoff Duncan
- Jeff Flake
- Ari Fleischer
- Lindsey Graham
- Charles Grassley
- Nikki Haley
- Asa Hutchinson
- Jim Jordan
- Brian Kemp
- Mitch McConnell
- Rob Portman
- Condoleezza Rice
- Tom Ridge
- Paul Ryan
- Ben Sasse. Tim Scott
- John Thune
- Pat Toomey
REPUBLICAN INFLUENCERS
- Whit Ayres
- Guy Benson
- Arthur Brooks
- John Fund
- Ben Ginsberg
- Victor David Hanson
- Yuval Levin
- Frank Luntz
- Andy McCarthy
- Michael Mukasey
- Rupert Murdoch
- Peggy Noonan
- Henry Olsen
- Ramesh Ponnuru
- Karl Rove
- Jonathan Turley
- Peter Wehner
JOURNALISTS & PUNDITS
- Bret Baier
- Peter Baker
- Dan Baltz
- Max Boot
- David Brooks
- Ron Brownstein
- Neil Cavuto
- Mona Charen
- Charlie Cook
- Robert Costa
- Steve Doocy
- David Drucker
- David Frum
- David Gergen
- Paul Gigot
- Susan Glasser
- Jeffrey Goldberg
- Jonah Goldberg
- Sean Hannity
- Margaret Hoover
- David Ignatius
- Brian Kilmeade
- Howie Kurtz
- Martha MacCallum
- Chad Pergram
- Jennifer Rubin
- Gerald Seib
- Cal Thomas
- Jonathan Turley
- Amy Walter
- Judy Woodruff
- Bob Woodward
- Byron York
- Fareed Zakaria
MEDIA OUTLETS & INSTITUTIONS
- 60 Minutes
- Associated Press
- BBC
- Center for Democracy and Technology
- The Cook Political Report
- The Economist
- The Fact Checker
- Fox News
- National Academy of Sciences
- National Council on Election Integrity
- National Review
- New York Post
- Time Magazine
- True the Vote
- Wall Street Journal Editorial Page
- Washington Times
- Yahoo.com
ALL FOUR LIVING EX-PRESIDENTS
- George W. Bush
- Jimmy Carter
- Bill Clinton
- Barack Obama
Alphabetical database of verbatim public statements (full text on site; downloadable PDF available).
The live page contains an extensive alphabetical database of named verifiers with quoted public statements and source citations (news outlets, congressional testimony, books, etc.). The full corpus is large; rebuilders should treat the on-page HTML or the PDF download as the canonical statement archive.
Contact for questions or suggestions: research@newstatecraft.org