In the months preceding the 2024 election and during early voting, PolitiFact fact-checked numerous claims about electio
Voters enter American Legion Post 778 to cast their ballots on Election Day, Nov. 5, 2024, in Butler Township, Pa.
But when favorable results started being reported on election night, culminating with Trump winning Pennsylvania and eventually the election, Republicans’ claims of chicanery mostly dissipated. About 70% of the claims we checked came from right-leaning speakers, versus 8% from left-leaning accounts. Most of what we looked into came from random social media posts, although we examined claims from Musk, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and losing Republican Wisconsin Senate candidateState and local officials, including Republican City Commissioner Seth Bluestein, said they didn’t know what Trump was talking about.
Another common 2024 theme was that Democrats opened the southern border so they could get noncitizens to vote for Harris. Trumpthe Justice Department was suing Virginia and Alabama to keep noncitizens on the voting rolls. Conservative activist James O’Keefe shared aclear electoral win “CCTV captures the moment a Trump voter in is assaulted by two Kamala Harris thugs at a voting station.”
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