Much like other Fox News shows, Fox Noticias is already fearmongering about voter fraud to Spanish speakers
Guest Alfonso Aguilar made false claims that Democrats “mobilize dead people" and noncitizens to vote
Written by G. Capuano
Research contributions from Janos Balazs
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During a Monday Fox Noticias segment discussing Virginia’s last-minute voter purge, which allegedly removed eligible voters from the rolls, guest Alfonso Aguilar spread false voter fraud narratives to the new show’s Spanish-speaking audiences.
Since early August, Virginia state officials have removed 1,600 “suspected non-citizens” from the state’s voter rolls. However, subsequent reporting found “the program has also erroneously ensnared U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote.” Last week, Fox News personalities repeatedly pushed false claims that the Biden administration is fighting against the purge in order to create a path for noncitizens to vote. In reality, the administration and civil rights groups sued to protect Virginia citizens who are eligible to vote — not to allow noncitizens to cast ballots — and objected to the state’s move to purge voter rolls less than 90 days before an election, which violates a three-decade-old federal law.
Launched in mid-October, Fox Noticias is Fox Corp.’s new daily Spanish-language news show airing on Fox Deportes. The show is anchored by Rachel Campos-Duffy, a Fox News host and contributor who has spent years spreading anti-immigrant rhetoric and misinformation about abortion and COVID-19. In just a few weeks on the air, Campos-Duffy has made it clear that the show will be another arm of the Fox propaganda machine, mirroring Fox News’ model by fearmongering about migrant crime, spreading misinformation about COVID-19, spreading false conspiracy theories about gender-affirming care, falsely linking Vice President Kamala Harris to communism and price controls, and, of course, playing cover-up for former President Donald Trump.
Now, as voters head to the polls, Campos-Duffy has shown Fox Noticias will continue the pattern, priming audiences with false claims about election fraud.
During the Monday segment, Aguilar falsely claimed “it’s clear” that “the Biden-Harris administration is using the power of the government, the Justice Department, to intervene electorally and keep the door open for fraud.” He also claimed that “they mobilize dead people to vote” and that undocumented immigrants “participate in the process of voting for their candidates.” In fact, evidence suggests the “rate of dead people voting is virtually insignificant,” and noncitizen voting is incredibly rare.
Aguilar is a conservative political activist and pundit who previously worked as the political director for Americano Media, the Florida-based conservative network that tried to become the Spanish-language equivalent of Fox News before it ran out of money in 2023