Speaking in Allentown, Trump made a significant false allegation of electoral fraud in Philadelphia during the 2012 election. And he made three different false claims about the 2020 election.
As he did during his 2016 campaign, Trump made unbiased accusations of election-related activities in Philadelphia. He suggested that it was doubtful that Republican candidate Mitt Romney had received “almost zero votes” there in 2012.
First facts: It is not true that Romney received zero votes or “almost” zero votes in Philadelphia; He 96,467 votes have been received, About 14% of the city. , Latanu, Romney got zero votes In 50 of the city’s 1,687 polling “divisions” According to the Philadelphia Inquiry. There is no basis for Trump’s suggestion that the results in these sections are evidence of fraud.
Leading Republicans in the city have been saying for years that Romney’s failure to win any votes in these particular areas is not evidence of fraud. Republicans who have rejected conspiracy theories include De Philadelphia, the former leader of the Republican City Committee in Philadelphia – whom Trump appointed to a position in the federal government in 2017.
Why did Romney do such a bad thing? There were many Republicans registered in Districts0 – sometimes reported by Inquirers – and these areas were heavily populated by black residents. Rome’s President Barack Obama was running against Blake’s first president.
“You had a rich, white Republican versus a Black Democrat,” Defelis said in an interrogation in 2016.
Local Republican ward leader Dennis Fury said in an interview that she was not surprised that Romney received no votes in two of her 23 constituencies. “What we saw in the Obama race were a lot of people who would normally vote for Mr. Obama as a Republican,” he said. “That’s not surprising to me.”
Ballet in 2020
Trump warned the crowd while criticizing Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor, Tom Wolf: “The governor counts the votes.” He said later in the speech, “Is this the guy who counts our ballots? It doesn’t work. It doesn’t work.”
First facts: Wolf does not count the ballet and he does not take charge of the ballet. Local county officials Send ballots And then Counting of votes.
Also, Pennsylvania’s top election official is Secretary of State Kathy Booker. He is designated a wolf, but he is not a wolf.
Controversy over Trump monitor
Trump claimed, “Did you see where they fought us because they didn’t want poll observers? They took us to court.”
First facts: This is wrong; Pennsylvania did not take Trump’s campaign to court on the issue he was referring to. .Lata, Trump himself is campaigning Sue County of Philadelphia in an attempt to gain access to attendance for campaign representatives Satellite Election Offices Where people can request a mail-in ballot, receive them on the spot, and fill out and submit them if they wish. Trump’s representatives were denied entry to such office fees in late September.
Delegates in the Trump campaign were described as “poll observers,” but were not given certificates. (And even the certificate, which is required for all Pennsylvania polling observers, does not authorize polling observers to inspect satellite monitor fees, according to the state.)
Judgment
A judge ruled against the Trump campaign earlier this month. Trump called the decision “bad” and said of the judge: “But he said, ‘No, you can’t have poll observers.’ So he says we can’t even see when counting the ballots. “He continued:” Can you believe? We can’t have polling observers, the judge said. They fought against us for that. They didn’t want to. That people count them. Who has ever heard of this? “
First facts: Judge Gary Glaser did not say that the Trump campaign would not be able to see the vote count, nor did he say that the campaign could not have poll observers at all. Instead, empty the glazer Ruled Polling observers were not allowed to observe the activities in these satellite offices – which he noted was not really counting votes. The Trump campaign still has the right to certify polling observers for election day and still have the right to observe the vote count.
Glaser wrote that satellite offices do not qualify as fee polling stations.
“The only activities taking place in the Satellite offices are voter registration, application for mail-in ballot by individual voters, provision of mail-in ballot to individual voters, private completion of mail-in ballot by individual voters, and delivery by individual voters. No voting, re-canvassing, opening, counting, counting, counting, or recording of ballots, votes or voting machines on Satellite at Fiso, he wrote.
The appellate court upheld the decision last week.
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