Vance says Milwaukee mayor protesting ‘too much’ over election probe

By Benjamin Yount
The Center Square

Vice President JD Vance isn’t buying the outrage from Milwaukee’s mayor over the Trump Administration’s investigation into the 2020 election in Milwaukee.

“I will say it was a little he doth protest too much,” Vance told the crowd at his Wednesday stop in Milwaukee. “When I hear a guy protesting out of nowhere, ‘I did not do election fraud, I did not do any election fraud,’ it makes me wonder why is that guy protesting so aggressively? It’s a little odd.”

The FBI has spoken with at least two Milwaukee Police officers who worked at the city’s election headquarters in 2020. The FBI has also spoken with an administrator at the Wisconsin Elections Commission and tried to speak with a Milwaukee County election manager.

Mayor Cavalier Johnson on Wednesday wrote a letter to the vice president, complaining about that investigation.

“Federal law enforcement agents, deployed at the direction of the President’s administration, have been present in my city, interviewing election officials,” the mayor’s letter said. “I know of no justification for this activity.”

After the vice president’s comment, Johnson went even further.

“So, I’ll ask again, what evidence is there of voter fraud in Milwaukee? Without any rational basis, why are FBI agents knocking on doors, intimidating current and former election officials?” the mayor said in a statement.

Vance didn’t speak directly to the Milwaukee election investigation but did talk about the idea of voter fraud or offer any proof of fraud in Milwaukee. Specifically, he spoke about the need for the SAVE America Act.

“If Democrats want us to stop talking about election fraud, I make them a simple deal. Pass the SAVE America Act and get voter ID, and we’ll stop talking about election fraud,” Vance said. “But when they say, ‘Number one, we don’t want voter ID. And number two, there’s not that much cheating in our elections.’ It’s natural for all of us to say not much cheating is still way too much cheating. So, stop it and give the American people voter ID.”