Fox News’s Kevin Corke hosted a discussion on Fox News at Night Thursday evening on whether or not Oklahoma should teach in public schools that the 2020 election may have been stolen. The discussion ended with Corke agreeing with both his guests that the state should indeed be teaching kids about 2020 election conspiracy claims.
Corke began with a clip from MSNBC in which a host pressed Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters on the curriculum, saying, “Why would you want Oklahoma students exposed to thoroughly debunked election conspiracy theories in the classroom?”
Walters replied, “President Trump should have won the 2020 election. You know, you look at things like the ballot dumps. You look at the mail-in ballots. You look at the voter fraud. We want them to look at data, look at statistics, and come to their own conclusion.
“Ah, come to their own conclusion. What could be wrong with that?” Corke added, noting:
Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters. Facing a bit of blowback over that MSNBC interview, you know, for his state’s new curriculum we want to bring in. Defending Education VP and Legal Fellow Sarah Parshall. Sorry it’s Parshall Perry. I left off the Perry there along with Ryan himself.Listen, Ryan, I think I speak for millions of Americans when I say there’s absolutely nothing wrong with discussing the fact that there were peculiarities, following the 2020 election. By the way, what happened to all those voters that
voted in 2020 that somehow didn’t vote in 2024?
“That’s a great question, Kevin,” Walters replied enthusiastically.
Notably, dozens of court cases and audits, including many conducted by Republicans, found no significant voter fraud in the 2020 election. Trump hired two firms in an effort to prove significant fraud — both found none. Additionally, voter participation in the U.S. has long ebbed and flowed depending on a variety of factors in any given election cycle – particularly enthusiasm for whoever is on the ballot. In 2020, 66.8% of eligible voters participated, while in 2024 only 63.9% of eligible voters came out to the polls. Fox News, of course, paid Dominion Voting System $787.5 million to settle a defamation lawsuit related to widely debunked claims about the 2020 election.
“You know, and I pointed out to MSNBC, you know, I know that these left-wing media outlets love to gaslight, but I said your own station covered the fraud,” Walters continued, adding:
They covered all of these issues. And so when you look down through it, I stand by what I said. President Trump should have won the 2020 election. We see the fraud, we see the manipulation from China and Russia. We saw all the issues that went on. And what we said very clearly, our kids are going to study the facts and they can make their own decision. But what I’m saying, the left-wing media hate looking at
the facts.
“Yeah, very interesting. By the way, this is from the Mirror, ‘The Oklahoma Board of Education has approved new curriculum standards that require students to be taught that the 2020 presidential election was rife. With fraud or discrepancies,’” Corke continued, asking, “Sarah Parshall Perry, what do you think?”
“I have to tell you, I think the case is specifically about the power of a state to transform its education through curriculum. And I think Oklahoma is leading the way. I am very impressed with the fact that this is made specifically to create critical thinkers. And don’t we need more of that in American education?” Parshall Perry dutifully agreed.
“That we do,” Corke concluded.
Watch the clip above via Fox News.