The steady drum beat from the GOP pushing false claims of widespread election fraud has largely gone silent in the wake of President-elect Trump’s victory.

Trump has never acknowledged his loss in the 2020 contest and appeared to be gearing up to make stolen election claims about 2024 if he lost the race to Vice President Harris.

Even in the hours before polls closed, Trump complained he had heard “a lot of talk about massive CHEATING in Philadelphia,” later suggesting the same was happening in Detroit.

But after Trump’s early morning victory speech Wednesday, few in the GOP have raised the topic – one that over the last four years has spurred reforms across the country, numerous lawsuits from the Republican National Committee (RNC) and GOP-affiliated groups, and even legislation to ban noncitizens from voting, something that is already illegal.

“I think that the immediate evaporation of any concerns or claims by Donald Trump and his campaign and his Republican allies in Congress of fraud or countless noncitizens on the rolls or electoral misconduct just reflects the reality that this was never about legitimate concerns with the electoral system,” said Jonathan Diaz, a director at the Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan legal group.

Trump won both the Electoral College as well as the popular vote, the first Republican to do so since 2004.

Throughout his campaign to win back the White House, he repeatedly cast doubt on the process, often saying the........

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