Carolina QuotesThe debate over whether or not there was fraud should occur, we never had any presentation in court where we actually looked at the evidence. Most of the cases were thrown out for lack of standing, which is a procedural way of not actually hearing the question. What I would suggest is that if we want greater confidence in our elections -- and 75% of Republicans agree with me -- is that we do need to look at election integrity. There's been no examination -- thorough examination -- of all the states to see what problems we had and see if they could fix them. There were lots of problems and there were secretaries of state, who illegally changed the law and that needs to be fixed, and I'm going to work harder to fix it and I will not be cowed by people saying 'oh, you're a liar' Now, let me say to be clear, I voted to certify the state electors because I think it would be wrong for Congress to overturn that.
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24 January 2021 on ABC's "This Week"
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“The debate over whether or not there was fraud should occur,…” Rand Paul. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-DE539172BE. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/de539172be
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