President Donald Trump said he is awaiting a report from a group called VoteStand, which is alleging massive voter fraud despite presenting no evidence. | Getty Trump tweets that he's awaiting report from group to help justify voter fraud claims

Returning again to his debunked assertion that millions of illegal votes were cast for his opponents in last year’s election, President Donald Trump said Friday that he is eagerly awaiting the report of an organization called VoteStand that claims to have evidence backing the president’s claim.

“Look forward to seeing final results of VoteStand. Gregg Phillips and crew say at least 3,000,000 votes were illegal. We must do better!” Trump tweeted on Friday morning. His post came less than an hour after Phillips made an appearance on CNN’s “New Day” during which he insisted that he knows for a fact that millions of people voted illegally but that his organization would not be able to provide proof for “another few months.”


Phillips wrote on Twitter on Nov. 11, just days after the presidential election and before most states had certified their results, that 3 millions noncitizens had voted. He said Friday that his organization will release its report only after it has completed a round of checks on its data. To date, he has offered no proof of any of his claims.

There is no evidence of voter fraud anywhere close to the scale that either Trump or Phillips have alleged. The National Association of Secretaries of State said in a statement earlier this week that “we are not aware of any evidence that supports the voter fraud claims made by President Trump, but we are open to learning more about the administration’s concerns.”

Still, Trump has said he will call for an investigation into the voter fraud he believes to have occurred, although he has yet to take any definitive action launching such an investigation. He is, however, expected to sign an executive action in the coming says setting such an investigation into motion.

Throughout his presidential campaign, Trump complained that the election would be rigged against him and would not say definitively that he would accept its results. It is a theme that he has carried into his presidency, telling congressional leaders last week at a White House meeting that he believed as many as 5 million illegal votes were cast in the election. He has said that votes cast illegally are the reason he lost the popular vote to Democrat Hillary Clinton, who beat Trump by nearly 3 million ballots nationwide despite losing handily in the Electoral College.