Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Winthrop Coliseum ahead of the South Carolina Republican presidential primary, in Rock Hill, South Carolina, U.S., February 23, 2024.
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Several groups founded by allies of former President Donald Trump to combat alleged “voter fraud” now have little money or results to show for their efforts.
Trump’s false claims that he lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden only as the result of widespread ballot fraud and other irregularities were the impetus for the creation of those nonprofit groups and political action committees.
But a glaring problem for those groups has been the fact that federal and state officials have repeatedly debunked Trump’s claims of fraud.
Another problem that doomed some of the groups was their failure to secure any fundraising help from Trump, the de facto leader of the Republican Party, who remains the chief promoter of false claims of widespread voter fraud in the United States.
New tax and campaign finance records reviewed by CNBC reveal that pursuing “election integrity” has not paid off for several groups in Trump’s orbit.
And in some cases, the groups’ stated missions on their public tax returns were opaque when they launched.
Other records raise questions as to what funds were used for at several entities.
Parscale’s election fraud network collapses
One notable disappearance from the field of election integrity efforts has been American Greatness, a network of pro-Trump groups founded by former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale.
Parscale announced in 2021 that he was launching a nonprofit, a PAC and a side group called the “Election Integrity Alliance” under the American Greatness umbrella.
He told the Axios news site at the time that American Greatness would “provide transparent data research and visualization, which will offer an accurate state-by-state aggregation of all needed, ongoing, and completed…
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