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

From the November 4, 2024, edition of Fox Noticias on Fox Deportes

RACHEL CAMPOS-DUFFY (HOST):  Last week, the Supreme Court gave Virginia’s governor, Glenn Youngkin, a victory by temporarily stopping a decision from a federal judge that ordered reinstating 1,600 possible non-citizens to the state’s voter roll.

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CAMPOS-DUFFY: Here to react is the conservative activist and former director of the Office of Citizenship of the United States, Alfonso Aguilar. Alfonso, it’s good to meet you. 

ALFONSO AGUILAR (GUEST): Rachel, it's a pleasure to be here with you.

CAMPOS-DUFFY: Why would anyone want someone who is not a citizen to vote?

AGUILAR: It’s very interesting, right? Obviously, look, we know there are contests, particularly in the so-called battleground states, states that are swing states, that are very close. So, this is a way for the left to get enough votes to prevail. That is, I think here it’s clear that the left has a strategy to keep the door open for fraud. If you think about it, it’s very suspicious to oppose updating the list of voters. I think we are all in favor of updating it to make sure that only those who can vote will participate in the electoral process. So, in this case, what is interesting about the case in Virginia that you mentioned is 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. Evidently, they want to make sure they can mobilize either citizens who don’t live in the state, dead people. They mobilize dead people to vote; that is incredible. I don’t know how they do that, and even immigrants, legal and illegal, to be able to participate in the process of voting for their candidates. This is an incredible thing, and it’s an attempt against democracy and the integrity of the election process.