“without evidence” . . . hock and spit!!!!!!!
It looks like the AP is using the legal definition of evidence. This meaning is a document or other item that has been accepted by a judge into a court case in a court of law. Using this definition …. if there is no court case, then there is no “evidence”. This is certainly NOT the definition most people think of for the word evidence but it is a real definition in the dictionary
It is probably the definition that the Clintons used all the many times they said “there is no evidence”. The fake news media has certainly been using it for four years relating to election fraud in the 2020 election.