Trump’s evil lie about the 2016 election

So now he’s back to saying there were illegal votes. As always when he makes this claim, he has no proof. This is just a setup for him to cast doubt on the 2020 results. He’ll probably claim there were illegal votes even if he wins. Let’s see if any Republican defends our electoral process. I doubt it. They’ll just continue to put up with the lies and bigotry.

The President of United States is putting "ballot box" in scare quotes and attacking the legitimacy of an election he won. This is dangerous behavior, in every way, and Republicans have decided that they're going to accept it because of judges and tax cuts. https://t.co/3DyfImd272
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 18, 2019

There was no Democratic effort to "steal" the presidential election, at the ballot box or otherwise. This is a big lie. pic.twitter.com/9nn0a5cjje
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 17, 2019

Trump has never offered any proof for his false claim that 3 to 5 million votes were illegally cast in 2016 https://t.co/dOOMoXxXh6
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) March 17, 2019

North Carolina House district NC-09 update

In addition to the new election, here are some other developments.

The main guy who committed election fraud has been indicted.
McConnell lied and treated this as voter fraud, not election fraud by Republicans. He did this to blame Democrats which is totally wrong.

Charges were filed in North Carolina in what is expected to grow into one of the most sweeping criminal investigations ever of fraud in a federal election.

By @amyegardner https://t.co/viPkHgBCqC
— Rosalind Helderman (@PostRoz) February 27, 2019

A Republican operative behind an illicit voter-turnout effort in North Carolina was indicted on obstruction of justice charges https://t.co/OZ8fc6Z0Ee
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 27, 2019

McConnell, with a straight face: "Now that an incident of very real voter fraud has become national news and the Republican candidate seems — seems — to have benefited, these long-standing Democratic talking points have been really quiet." https://t.co/RF2DmtTnrB
— Philip Bump (@pbump) February 26, 2019

Mitch McConnell is easily the most cynical force in American politics, and has been for two decades. https://t.co/EhuhrhkzBj
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) February 26, 2019

Dan McCready’s statement in response to Senator Mitch McConnell’s floor speech about #NC09 @wsoctv pic.twitter.com/9YLaouhlnV
— Joe Bruno (@JoeBrunoWSOC9) February 26, 2019

Republicans are gearing up for an uncertain and potentially crowded primary in the new election for North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District, while Democrat Dan McCready is already coalescing support from his party for the re-vote https://t.co/oqqL9OBlTj
— POLITICO (@politico) February 23, 2019

Trump won’t condemn North Carolina election fraud

He compared them to phony voter fraud claims in Texas and California.

Donald Trump on Friday declined to condemn the strong evidence of mass election fraud in North Carolina's 9th Congressional District, instead pointing to other questionable examples of voter fraud https://t.co/g3darLK1RF
— POLITICO (@politico) February 22, 2019

"Trump has been hypocritical on many things including this," says the Chair of N. Carolina's Democrats.

"He and the Republicans nationally and in North Carolina talked about voter fraud. This was election fraud. It appears that political karma kicked in." https://t.co/P54qwRgljo pic.twitter.com/3Xsm2gYC0Z
— CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) February 22, 2019

Wow. Asked about election fraud in North Carolina, Trump immediately pushes false equivalency with made up election fraud in California

"I condemn any voter fraud of any kind, whether it's Democrat or Republican," he says. pic.twitter.com/wSoTwDbrfj
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 22, 2019

Trump just claimed, falsely, that there were 1 million illegal votes in California. When the reporter tries to correct him, he shuts her down.

Trump effectively uses his “excuse me!” line to cut reporters off who try to hold him accountable for a lie. They shouldn’t stop. pic.twitter.com/8C2Vyw28sI
— John Aravosis 🇺🇸 (@aravosis) February 22, 2019

Trump, on why he hasn't condemned GOP fraud in NC: "I condemn any election fraud & when I look at what's happened in CA with the votes…There was just a case where they found a million fraudulent votes."

Reporter: "There haven't been those cases. This is an actual case, sir."
— Jackie Calmes (@jackiekcalmes) February 22, 2019

Trump lays some of the ol’ ‘both sides’ on alleged election fraud in North Carolina https://t.co/oCdODcWUTF
— Post Politics (@postpolitics) February 22, 2019

Trump’s claim of voter fraud in Texas is just another Trump lie

History tells us to be wary of these numbers. https://t.co/HUnG3BMUUE
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) January 31, 2019

This is starting to look like a screwup as big as Texas: “They sent out a list and called us and said it was a mistake,” Van Wolfe said. “All those people have proven citizenship.” https://t.co/DlqtyS951K via @wacotrib
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) January 31, 2019

1/ On Friday, Texas loudly announced that counties should check on the citizenship of 95,000 registered voters.

McLennan County got a list of 366 registered voters to check.

Turns out everyone on that list is a citizen. #txlege https://t.co/3H8eMICMHI via @wacotrib
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) January 31, 2019

On Friday, Texas announced that counties should check on the citizenship of 95,000 registered voters.

And then Texas quietly told counties that many don't belong on that list.

One county's list had zero non-citizens. New @TwitterMoments. #txlege https://t.co/ZO2vUEh5Wy
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) January 31, 2019

Claims of voter fraud keep surfacing and keep getting debunked. “Citizenship status changes, and the fact is when that when you do this kind of large-scale database matching you’re going to confuse people,” says the Brennan Center's @myrna_perez_. https://t.co/TMBPOVoBb1
— Brennan Center (@BrennanCenter) February 1, 2019

Election fraud in Kentucky

As bad as #NC09 is, it isn't the only recent case of election fraud in rural America. There is this recent rampant vote buying and absentee ballot fraud scheme in Kentucky https://t.co/zSbdxuX98D

— Michael McDonald (@ElectProject) December 4, 2018

Now Lou Dobbs claims there were illegal votes

Liar! There is no basis for his claim.

I was waiting for this: I predicted in advance that if Democrats won the House, the right would claim that it was because of millions of illegal immigrant voters. I was actually surprised that it took this long 1/ https://t.co/H7FxUzYaPw

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) November 16, 2018

What happened, I think, was that the right was totally unprepared for a big defeat, despite all the non-Rasmussen polling. So they spent a week or so in denial. But trust me: by next year they'll all know, with certainty, that illegal voters did it 2/

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) November 16, 2018

Republicans are damaging the electoral process by claiming there is voter fraud

The real problems are Republican voter suppression and (mostly Republican) gerrymandering. It’s amazing that Trump and Florida Republicans are claiming fraud in elections they are leading!

This disgusting spectacle will reduce public confidence in election results…which may be their goal.

This isn't the first time Trump has questioned the legitimacy of our electoral process. Months before the presidential election in 2016, he began claiming that the election was rigged against him. Watch: pic.twitter.com/aWWcMwlshm

— Hardball (@hardball) November 14, 2018

The recent rhetoric from Trump, and often other Republicans, trying to delegitimize election results is awfully dangerous. Maybe the most openly authoritarian move he's made so far. https://t.co/gKb8B01YVx

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 12, 2018

Opinion: Republicans’ war on free and fair elections can’t go unpunished https://t.co/dPrhIWMhNq

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 13, 2018

Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, alleges voter fraud in "four races across the country." pic.twitter.com/CFkAEkoxty

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) November 10, 2018

My new one @Slate: What’s happening in Florida is a nightmare. 2020 could be so much worse. https://t.co/OL1Wr3HxAL via @slate

— Rick Hasen (@rickhasen) November 12, 2018

Yes —-> https://t.co/rQeUmir3Oh

— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) November 11, 2018

What do you do when the president's son grabs hold of a six-year-old story from your website and uses it to spread lies about voter fraud? NBC's station in Miami had that problem on Monday… (https://t.co/hoc9kHREOS) pic.twitter.com/k6RmTsrGq3

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) November 13, 2018

For the second day in a row, the president has invented claims of voter fraud to interfere in a recount required by law in a prominent Senate race. Not so much as a tweet condemning this behavior from McConnell. He is just as complicit in this assault on our democracy.

— Robert Reich (@RBReich) November 13, 2018

Because voter suppression is real but rampant voter fraud is a myth https://t.co/2AH7xZUiIZ

— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) November 13, 2018

GOP candidate leading by ~2,400 votes suggests that outcome differing from what her campaign is expecting (her victory) "could reflect foul play" in CA39. We're expecting a big dump of votes tomorrow from @LACountyRRCC, where Cisneros has been running ahead. https://t.co/qYfOj02KEo

— Christine Mai-Duc (@cmaiduc) November 13, 2018

Russia is helping the Republicans

A network of suspected Russian social media accounts began propagating stories today about voter fraud in Texas, Florida and Ohio, according to the cyber firm Recorded Future. All are key battleground states where Dems are hoping to notch important gains. https://t.co/u8ka60i5HC

— Dustin Volz (@dnvolz) November 7, 2018