“TRUMP, on the 2024 election: “When I won in a landslide, a giant landslide, won all seven swing states, won the popular vote, won everything.”
THE FACTS: Trump's margin of victory in the 2024 election was not as large as he makes it seem. He won the electoral vote 312 to 226, including all seven swing states, according to the Federal Election Commission . The popular vote, however, was far closer, with Trump receiving 49.8% of the vote with 77,302,580 votes cast to Harris’ 75,017,613 votes (48.32%)
That's a difference of 2,284,967 votes. In 2020, Joe Biden defeated Trump by more than 7 million votes.
Trump won fewer electoral votes in 2024 than Democrats Barack Obama in 2008 (365) and 2012 (332) and Bill Clinton in 1992 (370) and 1996 (379). The electoral performance of those presidents pales in comparison with the sweeps by Franklin Roosevelt in 1936 (523), Lyndon Johnson in 1964 (486), Richard Nixon in 1972 (520) and Ronald Reagan in 1984 (525).
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TRUMP, referencing former President Joe Biden: “... a man that didn’t win the election, by the way, it’s a rigged election. Everybody knows that now.
THE FACTS: This is a blatant falsehood that has been disproven many times over — the 2020 election was not stolen. Biden earned 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232. He also won over 7 million more popular votes than Trump.
But Trump has been persistent in claiming that he won the 2020 race since its completion, even after he earned a second term in 2024, and has continued to claim the lead-up to the 2026 midterms.
Biden’s Electoral College victory was nearly the same margin that Trump had in 2016 when he beat Hillary Clinton 227 to 306 (304 after two electors defected). Biden triumphed by prevailing in key states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona and Georgia.
Allegations from Trump of massive voting fraud have been refuted by a variety of judges, state election officials and an arm of his own administration’s Homeland Security Department. In 2020, then-Attorney General William Barr, a Trump appointee, told the AP that no proof of widespread voter fraud had been uncovered. “To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election,” he said at the time.”
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“Fact-checking the speech”
The Associated Press
A look at false and misleading claims made as President Donald Trump marks his first year back in office by highlighting accomplishments at Davos and at a White House briefing. He falsely claimed the 2020 election was rigged and exaggerated his role in resolving international conflicts, claiming...
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Could have ridden on Air Force two.
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