Washington: The US attorney general rejected Republican claims of significant voter fraud in the presidential election on Tuesday. He added to the pressure on President Donald Trump to give up his quixotic effort to overturn Joe Biden’s clear victory.

Bill Barr’s comments confirmed the conclusions of the Department of Homeland Security, US intelligence and independent poll watchers that the 2020 election was, in the language of Government officials, the “most secure in American history”. He told to the media that “We have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election, till today”. Barr’s interview came as Trump persisted in claiming, without evidence, that fraudulent voting practices and systems in key states such as Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia had robbed him of a second term.

Trump in a tweet on Tuesday, highlighted testimony being offered in a public hearing on the election in Michigan, which has already certified Biden’s win in the state, and a separate Republican-organized event in Virginia. “People are coming forward like never before, Large truck carrying hundreds of thousands of fraudulent (FAKE) ballots to a voting center? TERRIBLE – SAVE AMERICA!” he wrote. In several legal filings — all rejected by the courts — the Trump campaign has sought to invalidate millions of votes for Biden based on claims that lacked any evidence. According to official vote tallies, Biden earned 6.2 million more votes than Trump and captured 306 state-by-state Electoral College votes, well above the 270 needed to win the presidency.

But Trump’s campaign has strived to delay the popular vote tally from being finalized before the Electoral College meets on December 14 to certify the election winner. His attorneys, led by Rudy Giuliani, have made numerous allegations ranging from ballot-box stuffing and fake ballot printing, to thousands of dead people having voted, to vote-counting machines being programmed to favor Biden.