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• Erick Erickson in The Resurgent:

“I treat this story very seriously because I know just how credible, competent, and serious — as well as seriously pro-Trump, at least one of the sources is.”

Mr. Erickson is squarely in the “never Trump” faction of conservatives, although that has not stopped him from taking critical stories about the president with “a grain of salt.” Perhaps it’s fair to call Mr. Erickson “anti-anti-Trump.” That is why we were interested to see him post this quick reaction to Monday night’s news, writing that he knows one of the sources cited in The Washington Post article and vouching for the source’s integrity and regard for the president. Read more »

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• John Fund in National Review:

“When liberals claim that there is no voter fraud, to borrow Shakespeare’s words, they do protest too much.”

If, as Democrats say, voter fraud doesn’t exist, what’s the harm in allowing the president’s Election Integrity Commission to do its work and come up empty-handed? Mr. Fund suspects that “leftists have known for a long time that America’s voter-registration lists are breeding grounds for potential fraud” but resisted any real investigations into the problem under the Obama administration. Read more »

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• Tim Miller in The Daily Beast:

“When it comes to being President of the United States, do your intentions or your values matter, or is that a myth we tell ourselves to feel good?”