Fact check: Seven of the most fraudulent false allegations of Trump’s rally in Georgia

President Donald Trump held a campaign rally in Georgia on Monday night, ahead of the critical Senate by-elections. Presumably appearing on behalf of Republican incumbents Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, Trump spent much of his speech on ridiculous allegations about the presidential election he lost to Joe Biden.

Many of his remarks were so completely unbound to reality – so ridiculously absurd and so thoroughly unmasked – that at this stage we are not worth spending time on the details.

However, to give you a taste of the inaccuracy, here’s a fact check of seven of the things Trump said.

Trump said, “Over the past few weeks, we have shown that we have won the election by a landslide.” He also said: “And we did not win a little. We won in numbers like no one had seen before.”

Facts first: Not even a little true. Trump lost the election against Biden 306 to 232 in Electoral College, the same margin that Trump described as a “landslide” when he was on the winning side in 2016. In 2020, Biden will earn more than seven million more votes than what Trump did.

Missing votes?

Trump said, “Hundreds of thousands of votes are missing.”

Facts first: This is again not true at all. Two months after Election Day, Trump and his allies did not provide good evidence that there were a significant number of “missing” votes.

Pennsylvania

Trump said, “In Pennsylvania, 205,000 more votes were cast than there were voters. How do you get around that one – which remains completely inexplicable. You have big senators and representatives there and no one can explain it.”

Facts first: There were no more votes than registered voters in Pennsylvania; civil servants and fact-checkers repeatedly explain that this assertion is false. Trump seems to be adopting the wrong figure from a Republican lawmaker who did. relied on incomplete data.

Ballot papers and a river

Trump said, ‘I hated it, Kelly, when our voices entered the military, with Trump everywhere, and they were thrown into a river. You saw it: they threw the voices of the army into a river, with my name … ”

Facts first: Nope. There is no indication that ballots were thrown into any river.

Trump might have wrongly referred to incidents that did not involve a river. In one incident, nine military ballots, seven of which were known to Trump, were mistakenly placed in the trash of a provincial election office in Pennsylvania (a temporary worker was fired). In the other incident, a bundle of mail containing ballot papers was found in a ditch in Wisconsin.
But Trump keeps talking about a suspected river incident that did not happen.

Georgia and the voting age

Trump said: “Sixty-six thousand votes in Georgia were cast by people under the legal voting age.”

Facts first: Gelection officials in eorgia say the actual number is zero.

Gabriel Sterling, a Republican who is the implementation manager of the state’s voting system, said at a Monday news conference that there were four cases in which residents requested an absent ballot before they turned 18, but that even these four votes were legal. was because the voters turned 18 years old. by election day.

Election History

Trump said, “We beat Florida and Ohio in record numbers. We beat Iowa by 8.2%. No one has ever won and lost those three states. Never happened. It’s almost impossible.”

Facts first: Wrong. Richard Nixon won Florida, Ohio and Iowa in 1960, but lost the election to John F. Kennedy.

The score

Trump said, “Seven states – you know, I won a lot, and then I suddenly lost a little bit, just a little bit. They can only go so far. They had no idea we were going to do that kind of numbers. “So that the printing press was really moving.”

He noted that it was initially led by “700,000 votes in Pennsylvania.” He continued: ‘It was over. I should have run to the podium and said, ‘Thank you so much for this amazing victory. ‘Then they might not have had time to lock those boxes, right, the counters and do what they did. But then everything started to disappear. ‘

Facts first: There is no basis for the proposal that Trump opponents printed fake ballots to add the votes or otherwise committed a massive fraud during the counting process. There’s a simple explanation for Trump’s big early clues in some states he eventually lost, including Pennsylvania: he led because many ballots have not been counted yet.

Media sales and political analysts noted weeks before election day that we would probably see a ‘red sky’ in which Trump initially looks like it’s big in some countries that counted the last ballots. Ballot papers largely benefited Biden so much because Trump regularly discouraged his own supporters from voting by mail.

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