(Source: Eric Hovde on Facebook)

During an appearance on the “Guy Benson Show,” Wisconsin Senate candidate Eric Hovde responded to a question on 2020 voting irregularities by saying people in nursing homes aren’t “in a point” to vote.

Benson asked Hovde what his strategy would be for handling constant media questions about former President Donald Trump’s stolen election claims, especially after Trump endorsed Hovde last week. Hovde responded by saying that he does not believe the 2020 election was stolen, but he did claim that there were things that happened in 2020 that were “very troublesome,” like a high number of people in nursing homes voting.

“We had nursing homes where the sheriff of Racine investigated, where you had 100% voting in nursing homes,” Hovde said. “Well, if you’re in a nursing home, you only have five, six-month life expectancy. Almost nobody in a nursing home is in a point to vote and you had children, adult children showing up saying, ‘Who voted for my 85 or 90-year-old father or mother?’”

Hovde’s claim that people in a nursing home have 5-6 months to live is untrue. The Administration for Community Living says that the average stay in a nursing home is highly variable, with 20-percent of patients over the age of 65 needing to stay longer than five years.

Hovde earned Trump’s endorsement when the former president visited Green Bay last week, despite Hovde believing that the 2020 presidential election was not stolen. Trump has continuously withheld an endorsement for Pennsylvania Senate candidate David McCormick. According to McCormick, Trump refused to endorse him because McCormick was not willing to publicly label the 2020 election as stolen. The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to comment on why Hovde earned an endorsement, but McCormick did not.

Hovde is slated to face incumbent Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D) in November, who has held the Wisconsin seat since 2013.