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It's been a rough week for Kris Kobach, the vice chairman of President Donald Trump's beleaguered Advisory Commission on Election Integrity.
Already slammed as an investigator in search of a non-existent crime – voter fraud – Kobach, Kansas' Republican secretary of state, has come under more fire for an op-ed he wrote in Breitbart News, alleging that New Hampshire laws encourage illegal voting, a fact that put the state in the Democrats' win column in 2016.
State officials hit back in person on Wednesday, when the commission held a public hearing in New Hampshire. Bill Gardner – the Granite State's Democratic secretary of state, a member of Trump's commission and the host of the hearing – publicly rejected Kobach's assertion, to his face.
"The problem that has occurred because of what you wrote is … the question of whether our election as we have recorded it is real and valid," said Gardner, to loud applause from the public gallery. "And it is real and valid."
Meanwhile, during the meeting, news broke that likely caused Kobach some heartburn: The Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan good-government watchdog, released copies of an email from the Heritage Foundation to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, warning against appointing Democrats, "mainstream Republicans," and academics to the voter-fraud panel.