Trump campaign kept its internal 2020 election inquiry under wraps: Report
Ryan King
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In the aftermath of the 2020 election, former President Donald Trump’s campaign reportedly tapped a research firm to search for fraud and other anomalies.
After chasing down various leads and accusations, the team of roughly a dozen researchers from Berkeley Research Group failed to unearth mass irregularities that could have tipped the election, seemingly prompting the Trump campaign to keep its findings under wraps, the Washington Post reported.
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Researchers at the firm combed through allegations of dead people voting, voter machine malfunctions, and other potential forms of malfeasance in six states. Still, the findings were never shown to a court or the public, according to the report.
“They looked at everything: change of addresses, illegal immigrants, ballot harvesting, people voting twice, machines being tampered with, ballots that were sent to vacant addresses that were returned and voted,” a source told the Washington Post. “Literally anything you could think of.”
Some team members reportedly included econometricians who used predictive models to study the election. All of this work was conducted in the twilight weeks of 2020, before the events that took place at the Capitol on Jan. 6, per the report.
Researchers reportedly concluded that there were likely some anomalies in the election, but not enough to affect the outcome. The states they examined included Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Nevada, the Washington Post reported.
“None of these were significant enough,” a source told the Washington Post. “Just like any election, there are always errors, omissions, and irregularities. It was nowhere close enough to what they wanted to prove, and it actually went in both directions.”
Upon the conclusion of the review, officials from Berkeley Research Group reportedly debriefed Trump’s team about their findings. Some of Trump’s allies, such as then-chief of staff Mark Meadows, voiced skepticism of their findings, per the report.
Berkeley Research Group’s research was reportedly conducted by a subsidiary company named East Bay Dispute and Advisory, which Trump’s campaign paid over $600,000 during the waning weeks of 2020, according to the report.
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Trump continues to contend that the 2020 election was “rigged” or “stolen” from him, despite losing the Electoral College 232 to President Joe Biden’s 306.
Trump debuted his campaign for the 2024 election last November.