The fears were heightened further by Trump’s fantastical claim that he would have won the popular vote if it hadn’t been for three million to five million illegal voters.74 Concern mounted as the president, who was determined to prove his lie was the truth, signed an executive order creating the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity and appointed as its chair Vice President Mike Pence, who as governor of Indiana had the state police raid and destabilize an organization registering African Americans to vote, and Kris Kobach as its vice chair.
