Some speakers here at the Republican National Convention have repeated the

unsubstantiated claim that Democrats are rigging the presidential election

specifically about non-citizens voting. How did we get here?

It happened because Democrats cynically decided they wanted votes from illegals more than they wanted to protect our children.

Just last week, Ruben-Giego voted to let the millions of people who poured into our country

illegally cast a ballot in this upcoming election.

That claim is just one of many conspiracy theories about the security of America's election

system that are being spread in the lead up to November.

Our White House correspondent,

Laura Burone Lopez has been covering this,

and she joins us now.

Laura, we should point out this claim isn't new,

but it is now frequently repeated by Republicans.

Where did it come from in the first place?

This lie dates back to 2016, Amna,

when then candidate Donald Trump said

that he lost the popular vote because three to five million non-citizen

immigrants voted for Hillary Clinton. That's of course is not true, but now it's

become much more pervasive among Republicans this election cycle going all the way from

Republican nominee Donald Trump to House Speaker Mike Johnson who has

repeated this baseless claim over and over again and the House

Republicans just last week passed a bill that makes it illegal for

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