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Fox News host on Sat­ur­day morn­ing expressed doubt that a report he had just read regard­ing vot­ing irreg­u­lar­i­ties in the 2020 gen­er­al elec­tion was true, blam­ing the lapse on the teleprompter.

Pete Hegseth, co-host of Fox News’ Fox & Friends Week­end, was in the mid­dle of dis­cussing planned demon­stra­tions in Wash­ing­ton, D.C., in sup­port of Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump and his efforts to wage a legal war on the elec­tion results. The Asso­ci­at­ed Press and sev­er­al oth­er media out­lets named his Demo­c­ra­t­ic oppo­nent Joe Biden as pres­i­dent-elect on Novem­ber 7.

“The demon­stra­tions are in sup­port of the pres­i­den­t’s effort to reveal vot­er fraud and count all the legal votes,” Hegseth said before adding: “So far, state elec­tion offi­cials have not report­ed seri­ous irreg­u­lar­i­ties with the vote that would affect the out­come of the race.”

With­out skip­ping a beat, Hegseth broke from his report­ing, telling view­ers: “That was in the teleprompter. I read it. I don’t know even know if I agree with it, but that hap­pens sometimes.”