AP Explains: Trump's baseless tweets about vote in 4 states
Donald Trump on Monday continued to tweet out baseless claims about vote counting, targeting four states that he has already lost or where he is trailing President-elect Joe Biden.
Trump has refused to concede the election and instead is pushing a narrative of widespread voter fraud committed by Democrats without providing evidence. While The Associated Press and other media outlets have already declared Biden the national winner, Trump has pursued legal challenges in several states and repeatedly made a barrage of false or dubious claims about the electoral process and the counting of mail-in ballots.
On Monday afternoon, he tweeted about Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Here is a look at all four states:
GEORGIA
What Trump said: “Georgia will be a big presidential win, as it was the night of the Election!”
The reality: Trump led on Tuesday night, but there were tens of thousands of ballots still to count mostly from Democratic strongholds or areas where Democrats have made inroads in recent years. Biden inched past Trump on Friday and led by about 11,600 votes on Monday afternoon, though the AP has not called the race. There is no evidence of large-scale voter fraud or reason to believe that the ballots counted after Tuesday are invalid.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, said in a statement Monday: “The process of reporting results has been orderly and followed the law. Where there have been specific allegations of illegal voting, my office has dispatched investigators.”
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