"I can't sit here and tell you that they don't cheat, and I know because they control the polling places in these areas. There are no Republicans," Giuliani said. | Getty Giuliani: 'Dead people generally vote for Democrats'

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Sunday that Democrats are more likely to promote voter fraud than Republicans, citing elections in the cities of Chicago and Philadelphia as examples.

"I've found very few situations where Republicans cheat," Giuliani said on CNN's "State of the Union." "They don't control the inner cities the way Democrats do. Maybe if Republicans controlled the inner cities, they'd do as much cheating as Democrats."


Asked about comments from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump calling for supporters to monitor polls and complaining the election system could be rigged against his campaign, Guiliani argued that the media are biased toward Democrat Hillary Clinton and also insisted that voter fraud is still rampant in America's cities, run largely by Democrats.

Referencing his campaigns in New York City, the prominent Trump surrogate told host Jake Tapper that if he were to say "that I think the election in Philadelphia and Chicago is going to be fair, I would have to be a moron to say that."

"I'm sorry. Dead people generally vote for Democrats rather than Republicans," Giuliani said.

"I can't sit here and tell you that they don't cheat, and I know because they control the polling places in these areas. There are no Republicans," he said of some major cities. "Then it's very hard to get people there who will challenge votes. So what they do is they leave dead people on the rolls and then they pay people to vote [as] those dead people, four, five, six, seven, eight [times]."

He talked about illegal voters being bused from polling place to polling place, saying it had been a problem in New York City before he became mayor.

Giuliani said fraud likely wouldn't affect the outcomes in most battleground states, however — unless those states end up particularly close.

In repeatedly pushing back on Giuliani's allegations, Tapper responded that there are "a lot of elections experts that would have very, very strong disagreements with you."