Trump pushes false claim Democrats can vote in New Hampshire's GOP primary

Former President Donald Trump continues to push a false claim that Democrats can vote in Tuesday's New Hampshire's GOP primary and «infiltrate» the process.

«Independents and Democrats are allowed to vote, so in order to try and stop Trump, they go out and they sign up and they can sign up very easily,» Trump said Thursday during an appearance on Fox News' «Hannity,» a claim he's made repeatedly in recent days. «And so somebody should have stopped it.»

New Hampshire is an open primary and independents can legally participate in either the Republican or Democratic primaries.

Registered Democrats are allowed to vote only in a Democratic primary. The cutoff for voters to change their party affiliation was in October.

Trump's comments come as GOP candidate Nikki Haley and her surrogate, New Hampshire GOP Gov. Chris Sununu, have advocated for independent voters, not registered Democrats, to participate in the GOP primary process as Haley attempts to court them in order to cut into Trump's commanding lead in the state.

Trump has also attacked Sununu, accusing him of allowing election «fraud» in the state, and claiming he should've done more to change the state's storied primary process.

«Governor Chris Sununu … should spend more time keeping Democrats from voting in the Republican Primary,» Trump wrote on his social media platform on Friday.

He's been repeating the claim in recent days as polls showed Haley gaining ground on him in New Hampshire.

The Trump campaign doubled down on his rhetoric, with spokesman Steven Cheung telling ABC News, «President Trump is absolutely correct when he says Nikki Haley is relying on liberals and Democrats to infiltrate because that's who she appeals to,» claiming thousand of Democrats had switched to