‘Cease Obsessing’ Over 2020 Election, Urge Smith, Other Conservatives

Former NAB President Gordon Smith, the ex-Republican senator from Oregon, was among eight self-described “political conservatives” signing their names to a report Thursday on the results of their investigation that they say debunks “every claim of fraud and miscount put forward” by former President Donald Trump and his advocates about the 2020 election. “Our conclusion is unequivocal: Joe Biden was the choice of a majority of the Electors, who themselves were the choice of the majority of voters in their states,” said the 72-page report, titled "Lost, Not Stolen: The Conservative Case that Trump Lost and Biden Won the 2020 Presidential Election." Trump and his supporters have failed to present evidence of fraud “on the magnitude necessary to shift the result in any state, let alone the nation as a whole,” it said. “In fact, there was no fraud that changed the outcome in even a single precinct. It is wrong, and bad for our country, for people to propagate baseless claims that President Biden’s election was not legitimate.” The eight, including three retired appeals court judges, urged “our fellow conservatives to cease obsessing over the results of the 2020 election.” Trump’s office didn’t respond to requests for comment.