Ben Ginsberg, a longtime Republican elections attorney, has dismissed President Donald Trump’s recent speech about alleged vulnerabilities in US election security.
Ginsberg served as national counsel to the presidential campaigns of George W. Bush, including during the contested 2000 Florida recount.
Trump delivered a 25-minute speech claiming there were “shocking vulnerabilities” in US polls and alleging foreign interference in the 2020 presidential election.
Ginsberg pushed back sharply, pointing to the same core problem that has dogged Trump’s fraud narrative since it first emerged six years ago.
“What stood out to me is that there’s still no evidence of a result of any election being incorrect,” Ginsberg told CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins.
“There still were not the documents. There still was not the evidence, although we’ll see what’s produced,” he added during the Thursday night interview.
Ginsberg has been a consistent and notable critic of Trump’s voter fraud claims, given his own deep roots within the Republican Party’s electoral machinery.
He previously testified before the House January 6 committee in 2022 that he found no evidence of fraud in the 2020 presidential election won by Joe Biden.
Ginsberg also served as co-chair of the bipartisan Presidential Commission on Election Administration, lending further weight to his assessments on election integrity matters.
The Trump administration released a tranche of declassified intelligence documents it claimed supported the president’s allegations, but critics noted the material appeared largely dated.
CNN’s Zachary Cohen reported that “none of the declassified information supports the claim that any previous election results, including the 2020 presidential contest that Trump lost, were manipulated by foreign interference or fraud in a way that would’ve changed the outcome.”
In his speech, Trump declared that “great damage has been done to our country” by foreign actors and that US elections had been “left vulnerable to being rigged and stolen.”
Ginsberg acknowledged that the US election system is far from perfect, noting it comprises over 8,000 separate jurisdictions across the country.
He also raised concerns about federal support being withdrawn from states, warning that reduced defences could create genuine risks ahead of future votes.
“If there is a problem with the 2026 election, it will be in large part because the defenses that are provided by the federal government to the states to stop that activity have been drastically cut back,” Ginsberg said.
“So that’s something that a bit of leadership would help on,” he concluded, signalling frustration with the current direction of federal election security policy.