Both before and after a crowd of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on Wednesday, Trump and a group of congressional Republicans repeated the same unfounded election-related nonsense that excited many of the president’s base.
Trump spoke during a rally near the White House. Members of the House and Senate spoke while objecting to some of Joe Biden’s votes.
Trump peppered his speech with his usual series of false allegations about the presidential election he lost – claiming that ‘we won it with a sudden victory’, that the election was’ so corrupt ‘, that anonymous people are the process’ kneeling halter ‘has. and that Joe Biden received ’80 million computer votes’ instead of legal votes.
Pence is “right”
According to Trump, “if Mike Pence does the right thing, we will win the election.” He added: “all Vice President Pence needs to do is send it back to the states for reaffirmation,” which Trump claimed Pence “has the absolute right to do.”
According to CNN contributor and law professor Steve Vladeck, Trump’s claim is ‘just not true’.
‘There is no discretion left [the Vice President’s] “No vice president has previously claimed the power to reject any properly formatted certificates,” Vladeck told CNN.
Even the president’s longtime lawyer Jay Sekulow has said that Pence does not have the legal authority to cause such an outcome.
“Some have speculated that the Vice President could simply say, ‘I’m not going to accept these voters,’ that he has the authority to do so in the Constitution. I do not really think that is what the Constitution has in mind. ” If that were the case, any vice president could refuse any election, ‘Sekulow said in his radio program this week, adding that Pence’s role was’ more of a ministerial procedural function’.
Georgia
The president claimed that while many people watched the Georgia election unfold on Tuesday night, “they cheated like hell anyway.”
“Last night was a little better because of the fact that we had a lot of eyes on one particular state,” Trump said, “but they cheated like hell anyway.”
Facts first: This is false. Whether in the general election or in Tuesday’s runoff from the Senate, there is no evidence of fraud with major voters in Georgia. Trump’s claims have been personally and repeatedly refuted by Gabriel Sterling, the manager of the implementation of voting systems in Georgia.
Trump on Tuesday and Wednesday tweeted several false allegations about election fraud.
But there was no stealing or cheating. Tuesday morning, there were some issues with security keys in Columbia County, Georgia. The problem, according to Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s foreign minister, was resolved at 10 a.m. and people could vote in the meantime.
“We had a record election day,” Sterling added. “As of Monday, 970,000 absentees had been accepted. There were 31,000 more in yesterday’s total. That leaves 60,000 who came in yesterday.”
Voices in Pennsylvania
Trump claims that there were “205,000 more ballots in Pennsylvania than your voters had.”
Election night
Trump claimed that the election was over “at 10 a.m.” on election night, when he had a lead in the polls in Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania, but when “bullshit explosions” took place.
Facts first: It is obviously false that the election was over at this early stage of the counting process. There’s a simple explanation for Trump’s big initial clues in some states he eventually lost, including Georgia, Pennsylvania and Michigan: he led because many ballots have not been counted yet. There is no indication that he lost the clues for any suspicious reason.
Ballot papers by post
Trump continued to lie about the consent of the entry and said there is widespread fraud in the consent.
“Using the pretext of the China virus and the ballot paper scam, the Democrats this year tried to do the most shameless and outrageous election,” he said. “Theft and there has never been anything like it. It’s a pure theft in American history, everyone knows that.”
“Bags” of ballot papers
Trump said on election night in Fulton County, Georgia, officials “plucked suitcases of the ballot papers from under a table,” which was “totally fraudulent.”
Facts first: Trump’s claims are completely unfounded. After checking the footage of the polling station in question, the civil servants and provincial officials determined that the conduct of the ballot box was part of the normal process, not fraud. According to election officials, the items pulled under the table were bins, not suitcases.
Audits
Trump claims “not one swing state has conducted a comprehensive audit to remove the illegal ballots.”
Facts first: This is false. At least two swing states conducted audits but found no evidence of widespread fraud.
Voice Viewers
On the floor of the house, Lee Zeldin, a representative of New York, denied Trump’s claims that the pollsters were banned from counting seats or otherwise prevented from observing the count and the access they legally deserved.
According to Zeldin, “there were pollsters who denied the ability to closely monitor the mood of the ballot.”
Facts first: Nowhere in the US are there reports of systematic irregularities with bearings. There is no evidence to confirm the allegations that the ballot box was not closed during the process.
Election day extended
The president of Ohio, Ohio, objected to Pennsylvania’s election votes, claiming that the Supreme Court extended the election day in the Commonwealth.
“Pennsylvania law says ballot papers must be on Election Day by 8 p.m. The Democratic Supreme Court said, ‘No, we’re going to extend it, Election Day does not end on Tuesday.” “They took it to Friday,” Jordan said.
Facts first: It is misleading and needs context. While it is true that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has extended the deadline for voting ballots for Pennsylvania, election day has not been extended, and it is false to indicate that votes cast after Tuesday are in any way be counted.
Prior to the election, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court allowed votes received up to three days after the election to be counted, even without a valid postmark.
Undocumented voters
Rep. Mo Brooks claims that “Joe Biden obtained approximately 1,032,000 votes through illegal foreign votes.”
Facts first: This is completely unfounded.
There is no evidence that more than a million immigrants voted without documents, and according to experts, voter fraud of any kind is extremely rare.
This story is being updated
CNN’s Melissa Tapia contributed to this article.