US Election 2020

[tweety]

“I will be making a statement tonight. A big WIN!”

— tweet, Nov. 4, 12:45 a.m.

As Biden started speaking shortly after midnight on Wednesday to proclaim “we believe we're on track to win this election,” Trump issued his first post-election tweet, claiming outright victory.

The claim was false and premature, as vote-counting was in the early stages. News organizations had called Florida for Trump and Fox News had called Arizona for Biden, but the other battleground states were unresolved, and the president was far from the 270-vote threshold in the electoral college required to win the presidency.

[tweety]

“We are up BIG, but they are trying to STEAL the Election. We will never let them do it. Votes cannot be cast after the Polls are closed!”

— tweet (marked by Twitter as misleading), 12:49 a.m., Nov. 4

This tweet, immediately flagged by Twitter, falsely claimed that Trump was up “big” (he had never led in the electoral college count as various news organizations called states) and, without evidence, accused Democrats of trying to steal the election. States do not allow votes to be cast after polls have closed, but some states permit the receipt of ballots as long as they are postmarked by Election Day.

[tweety]

“Millions and millions of people voted for us tonight, and, uh, a very sad group of people is trying to disenfranchise that group of people, and we won’t stand for it.”

— news conference, Nov. 4, 2:30 a.m.

Many more millions voted for Biden. As of Thursday, Biden had earned almost 4 million more votes than Trump — 72.1 million votes to 68.3 million — though the overall popular vote does not determine the presidential election.

[tweety]

“It’s also clear that we have won Georgia. We’re up by 2.5 percent or 117,000 votes with only 7 percent left. They’re never gonna catch us. They can’t catch us.”

— news conference, Nov. 4

Trump may have prematurely declared victory in Georgia. As of Thursday evening, the margin had shrunk to about 9,500 votes, out of about 4.9 million counted, with under 50,000 to be counted in mostly Democratic-leaning areas.

[tweety]

“Most importantly, we’re winning Pennsylvania by a tremendous amount of votes. … With 64 percent of the vote in, it’s gonna be almost impossible to catch, and we’re coming into good Pennsylvania areas where they happen to like your president. … So, we’ll probably expand that.”

— news conference, Nov. 4

Actually, most of the votes to be counted were in Democratic strongholds. Unlike many other states, mail and absentee ballots could not be counted before Election Day in Pennsylvania because the GOP-controlled legislature refused to authorize it. As of midday Thursday, Trump’s margin had shrunk to 116,000 votes, with about 500,000 left to count. Democrats maintain Biden will win a healthy victory here.

[tweety]

“We’re winning Michigan.”

— news conference, Nov. 4

Trump lost Michigan by a substantial margin — about 150,000 votes, or 2.8 percentage points.

“We’re winning Wisconsin.”

— news conference, Nov. 4

Trump lost Wisconsin by about 20,000 votes. With the margin under 1 percentage point, Trump has said he will seek a recount (which his campaign will have to pay for). Wisconsin recounts generally do not change that many votes.

[the big wheel]

Rick Santorum declares trump statements bizzarre and dangerous for the country.
Come on republicans time to step up wait for the count to be completed see who wins and move on past the self centred shallow lunacy.

[Guest]

Theres a few that I could watch 3 or 4 times a year till the day I die... gladiator makes the short list

I presume also on that list is spartacus, braveheart, young guns, tombstone , etc.?

[tweety]

“Our lawyers have asked for ‘meaningful access’, but what good does that do? The damage has already been done to the integrity of our system, and to the Presidential Election itself. This is what should be discussed!”

— tweet, Nov. 4, 6:24 p.m.

Trump has offered no evidence that the election’s integrity has been compromised, and none has been found. In fact, cybersecurity experts in the Trump administration and local officials say the process has been smooth despite the unusual historic circumstance of a deadly pandemic.

[tweety]

The child president is having a temper tantrum. And once again.

Trump has offered no evidence that the election’s integrity has been compromised, and none has been found. In fact, cybersecurity experts in the Trump administration and local officials say the process has been smooth despite the unusual historic circumstance of a deadly pandemic.

If you want to read the entire ridiculous list of utterly idiotic and false tweets and claims : https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/05/president-trumps-false-claims-vote-fraud-chronology/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/05/president-trumps-false-claims-vote-fraud-chronology/