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Donald Trump has a long history of claiming that the US elections are being rigged, particularly when the results are not to his liking.
We are in BIG time, but they are trying to STEAL the election. We will never let them do it. No votes can be cast after the polls are closed!
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 4, 2020
‘Obama lost the popular vote’
During the 2012 presidential campaign, when Trump defended the notorious “birth” theory that Barack Obama was not an American, the developer claims voting machines erased Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s ballots.
Right after the results were announced, Trump tweeted – wrongly – that Obama “lost the popular vote by a lot and won the election. We should have a revolution in this country!
“We should march on Washington and stop this charade,” he adds.
Ted Cruz stole Iowa! ”
During the Republican primaries in 2016, Trump accuses his rival Ted Cruz of cheating when he convincingly struck him in Iowa and Wisconsin.
“Ted Cruz didn’t win Iowa, he stole it,” Trump tweeted. “That’s why all the polls were so wrong and why it got a lot more votes than anticipated. Bad!”
‘The dead are voting’
After winning the Republican nomination, Trump intensifies his rhetoric, attacking the “corrupt” voting system while falling behind in opinion polls the Democrat Hillary Clinton, whom he dubbed “Crooked Hillary.”
On August 1, he warns twice that the elections “are going to be rigged,” and he tells supporters that “we better be careful … or they will take it away from us.”
“People who died 10 years ago are still voting,” he later states, saying that “fraud is very, very common” and that illegal immigrants are voting as well.
The candidate also spreads a conspiracy theory stating that 2.5 million Clinton supporters have been given two votes “so they can vote twice.”
‘I’ll keep you in suspense’
During a Fox News presidential debate less than three weeks before the Nov. 8, 2016 election, Trump drastically breaks with American electoral tradition by saying he will not accept defeat if Clinton wins.
“I’ll tell you in the moment,” he says. “I will keep you in suspense.”
‘I won the popular vote’
Even after winning the presidency with the majority of the electoral college, Trump wrongly claims that he also won the popular vote, saying that Clinton won millions of illegal ballots.
“Serious voter fraud in Virginia, New Hampshire and California,” he tweeted.
“So why isn’t the media reporting on this? Serious biases, big deal!”
‘Trying to steal’ the vote
In the final months of the 2020 campaign, Trump repeatedly refuses to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses, saying that Democrats were using mail-in votes to steal the election.
Voting by mail, which often tips Democrats, was “a big scam,” he says.
He tweets that this “is the most INACCURATE AND FRAUDULENT choice ever.”
Hours after the count began, Trump tweets that “we are BIG, but they’re trying to STEAL the election” and then says he will go to the Supreme Court to dispute the count.
Experts and US government officials have repeatedly said that survey fraud is rare.
The Supreme Court’s decision to vote in Pennsylvania is VERY dangerous. It will allow rampant and uncontrolled deception and undermine our entire system of laws. It will also induce violence in the streets. Something must be done!
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 3, 2020
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