I've spent a good part of the campaign covering the Trump admin's attacks on the integrity of the electoral process, so I'm going to be fact-checking Donald Trump's statement, which is due to start shortly.
Trump says "pollsters knowingly got it wrong." This is obviously not true.
"If you can't the legal votes, I easily win." — This is false. There is no evidence that any illegal votes have been counted.
"Media polling was election interference by powerful special interests. These polls were designed to keep our voters at home."
"They were suppression polls."
Trump is suggesting a vast conspiracy of the entire media industry (inc. Fox News) to create fake poll results. False.
"They were suppression polls."
Trump is suggesting a vast conspiracy of the entire media industry (inc. Fox News) to create fake poll results. False.
"We were winning a lot and then our numbers started getting whittled away in secret." This is false. Trump's numbers went down because mail-in ballots take longer to count and they were used overwhelmingly by Democrats.
"They want to find out how many votes they need, they wait and wait and then they find them." Trump again pretending not to know how mail-in ballots are counted. They take longer to count, used overwhelmingly by Democrats. Thus the late shift.
The premise of this entire speech is Trump alleging a vast conspiracy across several states because he took an early lead which decreased. The actual reason is that mail-in ballots take longer to count and were used overwhelmingly by Dems. Everyone knew this was going to happen.
This is getting a bit rambling. If the Trump campaign had any evidence of voter fraud they would have presented it. All we have is a deliberately obtuse explanation of how election counts work.
The president is slurring some of his words.
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