Fact check: Trump, in 2023, tells a new lie about the 2020 election

[lennypartiv]

That's how many "votes" Biden got.

All mail in ballots on bamboo paper.

 

[Vrenn]

All mail in ballots on bamboo paper.

You are just spreading the Hate and Fear. Nothing else. While the Nation is trying to heal, you are feeding the bear.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

The Dems most often carry the counties with the most votes.

 

[Independentthinker]

And the grift goes on. It's not enough that people are sitting in jail because of Trump's election lies. It's not enough that Fox News, the once darling media outlet of conservatives, has taken a financial hit because they helped spread Trump's lies. It's not enough that people have now lost their jobs over Trump's lies. He continues to spin them because at the end of the day it's all about him. It always has been.

In a speech to a Republican gathering in Florida on Friday, during which he repeated his usual lie that the 2020 election was “rigged and stolen,” Trump pointedly noted that Biden got more votes than Trump in fewer than a fifth of US counties in 2020. Trump then said, “Nothing like this has ever happened before. Usually it’s very equal, or – but the winner always had the most counties.”

Facts First: Trump’s claim that the winner of every presidential election before 2020 always carried the most counties is false. The two previous Democratic winners before Biden, Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 and Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, carried a minority of counties in each of their victories. Obama won about 28% of counties in his 2008 victory and even fewer, about 22% of counties, in his 2012 victory, according to figures provided to CNN by David Wasserman, a prominent analyst of election data who is a senior editor at The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter. Like Biden, Obama won the national popular vote by millions even as he carried fewer than a third of counties.

Biden carried about 17% of counties while beating Trump in 2020, a smaller percentage of counties than Obama carried while winning in 2008 and 2012, but there is nothing odd about the 2020 figure. In fact, it’s easy to explain. Land doesn’t vote, people do. In the current political era, Democratic presidential candidates have tended to be dominant in the most populous counties, some of which have hundreds of thousands or even millions of people, while Republicans have tended to do best in areas with fewer residents.

MSN

We've had six years of Democrats spewing election lies.

 

[Vrenn]

We've had six years of Democrats spewing election lies.

Your fear and anger routine is noted.

 

[miketx]

he said FOX News in the OP, so it might belong in the media forum. or just throw it in the Africa forum, since Trump hates Africans lol

There is a country called Africa?

 

[miketx]

Your fear and anger routine is noted.

Your non stop trolling and lying is noted.

 

[Kilroy2]

Trump back on the campaign trail telling lies is the stuff that Makes America Groan Again

His stellar career in politics begin with "Obama is not a citizen and wasn't born in the US" which was repeated so many times by republicans that he had no choice but to continue with lying. They love it.

He did flip flopped on the Obama issue and finally admitted that Obama was born in the US and was a citizen

He then question his decision to admit that Obama was born in the US and flip flopped again as his original statements was widely accepted by his Republican base.

He did learn his lesson and realize it just best to keep on lying without any remorse because they love it. The election was stolen and it doesn't matter if there is proof. The Trump word is mightier than the sword.

Well after overusing, eventually the sword will become blunt.