Thread: CNN Host Admits He Was Wrong to Claim Illegal Immigrant Voting Never Happens

CNN Host Admits He Was Wrong to Claim Illegal Immigrant Voting Never Happens, Following Discovery of Voter Fraud in New Jersey (VIDEO)

by Mike LaChance Jul. 25, 2026 10:20 pm



Screencap of Twitter/X video.

Michael Smerconish of CNN, who is billed as a conservative commentator, said that he was wrong to dismiss the idea of illegal immigrants voting during a recent conversation with journalist Mark Halperin.

Their discussion was focused on the discovery of thousands of illegal immigrants who were registered to vote in the state of New Jersey.

It’s amazing that the New Jersey story broke just a few days after Trump gave a national address about election integrity in which he alleged that this exact thing is happening in multiple states.

FOX News reports:

CNN and SiriusXM host Michael Smerconish acknowledged Wednesday on “The Michael Smerconish Program” that he could no longer claim noncitizen voting never occurred after New Jersey disclosed that a software error improperly registered roughly 6,600 noncitizens and fewer than 400 cast ballots.

“I can’t say that any longer,” Smerconish said. “I don’t know how often it does happen, but I can’t say any longer, ‘This never happens.’”

Smerconish said he had previously reached the opposite conclusion after discussing a January New York Times analysis titled “Initial Review Finds No Widespread Illegal Voting by Migrants, Puncturing a Trump Claim.” The analysis found no evidence of widespread fraud but noted that noncitizens sometimes appeared on voter rolls…

Political analyst Mark Halperin agreed that the disclosure undercut categorical claims about noncitizen voting while cautioning that more information was needed before conclusions could be reached about its scale.

“Based on what we now know, the thing that Democrats said doesn’t happen happened,” Halperin said. “And it’s not right to take the word of the Democratic governor of New Jersey about what actually happened.”

See the video below:

https://twitter.com/i/status/2080362301794730176

Other people in media will continue to deny that this is a problem.

They should be ignored. We need investigations into the other states that have been implicated in this kind of fraud.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...claim-illegal/

That's what you get for putting any credibility behind the New York Times, aka the New York Slimes! We've seen the New York Times lie about everything involving illegal immigration and conservatives for decades! They are nothing but a propaganda rag for open borders and the radical left.

Can anyone find a way to message Michael Smerconish and share with him a link to our documentation showing illegal noncitizen voters are a widespread common problem in US elections which illustrate a systematic security failure that is being exploited?

https://www.alipac.us/42-non-citizen...t-voters.html/

www.noncitizenvoters.com

Update: Michael Smerconish has no contact methods on his X or website which explains why he has his head up his own ass. He is one of those insulated elites regurgitating officially sanctioned false propaganda from the New York Times.

I tweeted to him here, but doubt he and his staff will see it past the continued censorship by the H1Bs at X...

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There's no contact method on your X or website, which indicates you are one of those insulated elites who can't be bothered with information or facts you didn't read in the lying New York Times. No wonder you are making public apologies for being wrong about noncitizen voters.

https://x.com/ALIPAC/status/2081402393338482872?s=20