- Jan 24, 2017 18H:32 GMT/UTC/ZULU TIME
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Republicans have admonished President Donald Trump after he repeated his unsubstantiated claims about voter fraud in November's US election.
Mr Trump told congressional leaders at a reception on Monday that millions of undocumented immigrants had voted illegally for Hillary Clinton.
But Senator Lindsey Graham called the comments "inappropriate", adding that Mr Trump should "knock this off".
House Speaker Paul Ryan also said there was no evidence to support his claims.
"I've seen no evidence to that effect. I've made that very, very clear," the Wisconsin Republican told reporters on Tuesday.
During a closed-doors meeting on Monday night, the Republican president regurgitated his incorrect claim that three to five million undocumented immigrants had illegally voted.
Mr Trump has never provided any evidence for the conspiracy theory.
The Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton, received nearly three million votes more than Mr Trump, who won the presidency by prevailing in key swing states.
Any notion of widespread voter fraud was widely rejected as bogus when Mr Trump made the same claim in November.
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Mr Graham, a South Carolina senator, rebuked Mr Trump for his comments, saying they were "the most inappropriate thing for the president to say without proof".
He continued that the president "seems to be obsessed with the idea that he could not have possibly lost the popular vote without cheating and fraud".
"I would urge the president to knock this off," he added.
Republican Pennsylvania Representative Charlie Dent also weighed in, saying Mr Trump needed to move on and "get to the serious business of governing".
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