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New Hampshire officials and operatives are pushing back on Trump adviser Stephen Miller's claims of voter fraud in the Granite State
Parroting his boss, President Donald Trump, Miller said Sunday that it was 'very real' that voters from Massachusetts were bused into New Hampshire
Now the former state GOP chair told Politico that Miller's statements were 'preposterous, completely untrue' and 'delusional'

By Nikki Schwab, U.s. Political Reporter For Dailymail.com

Published: 18:21 EST, 14 February 2017 | Updated: 18:44 EST, 14 February 2017

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New Hampshire officials and operatives, including some Republicans, are pushing back on White House Senior Policy Adviser Stephen Miller's claims that voters were bused from Massachusetts to the Granite State to tamper with the 2016 election.

'There's zero evidence to support it,' said former state GOP chair Fergus Cullen in an interview with Politico. 'It's preposterous, completely untrue, delusional.'

Miller was parroting claims President Donald Trump made in a closed-door meeting with senators last week, in which the president said Massachusetts residents were 'brought in on buses' to vote 'illegally.'

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White House Senior Policy Adviser Stephen Miller said President Donald Trump's claims that Massachusetts voters were brought into New Hampshire on Election Day were 'very real'

ABC's This Week host George Stephanopoulos asked Stephen Miller for concrete evidence of voter fraud in New Hampshire on several occasions throughout an interview on Sunday

Trump was explaining why he lost the state to Democrat Hillary Clinton and why Sen. Kelly Ayotte was thwarted by Maggie Hassan, the state's Democratic governor.

Making his Sunday shows debut, Miller didn't back down when ABC's George Stephanopoulos confronted him and asked him to provide evidence that there was widespread voter fraud in New Hampshire.

Miller had worked on former Sen. Scott Brown's failed New Hampshire Senate campaign. Brown had previously represented Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate, though was unseated by Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

'I've actually, having worked before on a campaign in New Hampshire, I can tell you that this issue of busing voters in to New Hampshire is widely known by anyone who's worked in New Hampshire,' Miller replied. 'It's very real, it's very serious.'

Stephen Miller (pictured) got into a back-and-forth with ABC's George Stephanopoulos over new voter fraud claims President Donald Trump made to senators this week

It's also considered a conspiracy theory, New Hampshire operatives told Politico, acknowledging they heard rumors of busing as well, but saw zero proof that the story was legitimate.

'I suspect the rumor is as old as buses are,' Cullen told Politico. 'It's been around for at least 20 years, every single election year, there has been discussion.'

Cullen had offered $1,000 via Twitter to anyone who could provide evidence that voter fraud occurred. So far, not a soul has come forward.

'For Miller to go out and double down and triple down on Sunday is really sad,' Cullen told the online publication. 'I understand he did some work on Scott Brown’s 2014 senate campaign, but Jeanne Shaheen won that election and it’s not because of fraud.'

Additionally, while Clinton and Hassan won in November, so did Chris Sununu, the state's new Republican governor.

Raymond Buckley, the chair of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, lampooned Stephen Miller for comments he made on voter fraud in the Granite State

Another GOP operative who talked to Politico possibly pinpointed the origin of the rumor, which the source said has been around 'forever.'

The operative, who asked not to be named, said buses have been used to bring voters to the polls from college campuses, which trend Democratic.

'They're not busing from Massachusetts, they're college students, and they're totally allowed to vote here,' he told Politico. 'Both parties do it, but the Dems do a better job than us at that, honestly.'

Raymond Buckley, the chairman of the Democratic Party in New Hampshire, who is also running for Democratic National Committee chair, was insulted by Trump and Miller's attack.

'For Mr. Miller to make up such an outrageous lie is unacceptable for anyone who works in the White House,' Buckley said. 'It's an outrageous attack on the people of New Hampshire. We run among the finest operation in the first-in-the-nation primary and in our general election.'

More officially, New Hampshire Deputy Secretary of State Dave Scanlan told NHPR that there was no evidence of Massachusetts voters coming into the state to vote, with less than .2 percent of voters not presenting acceptable identification on Election Day.

The White House has also provided no evidence, though Trump has promised to sign an executive order on the broad-based topic of voter fraud and told Bill O'Reilly earlier this month that he was going to task Vice President Mike Pence with chairing a commission on the matter as well.