Trump lies about his 2024 victory, the 2020 election, and more at DC pre-inauguration rally
And so it begins again. The day before his second inauguration, Trump held a campaign-style rally at an arena in Washington, where he repeated lies from the campaign trail while also adding in some new falsehoods.
Trump’s victory in Florida: Trump correctly said he won Florida by 13 percentage points in the 2024 election. But then he added, “Nobody’s done that ever.” That’s false; Republican presidential candidates Richard Nixon (1972), Ronald Reagan (1980 and 1984) and George H.W. Bush (1988), in addition to various Republican and Democratic candidates in prior decades, won Florida by more than 13 percentage points. Nixon, for example, won it by 44 percentage points.
The 2020 election: Trump lamented what could have happened if only the 2020 election “weren’t rigged,” then added, “But it was.” And he said later in the speech that “they rigged the election.” This is his usual lie; Trump legitimately lost a free and fair election to Joe Biden.
The youth vote: Trump falsely claimed that “we won the youth vote by 36 points” in the 2024 election. He didn’t say how he was defining “the youth vote” — CNN has asked his transition team to clarify — but there’s no basis for his claim by any reasonable definition. While young voters, particularly young men, did shift toward Trump compared with the 2020 election, exit poll data published by CNN found that Vice President Kamala Harris beat Trump 54% to 43% among voters ages 18-24, 53% to 45% among voters ages 25-29, and 51% to 45% among voters ages 30-39. Even if Harris’ actual margins were smaller — exit poll data is often flawed — there is simply no sign that Trump dominated Harris with young voters.
Pennsylvania in 2024: After crediting billionaire supporter Elon Musk for his campaign efforts in Pennsylvania, Trump claimed, “We ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide.” The phrase “like in a landslide” is false. Trump beat Harris in Pennsylvania by under 2 percentage points.
Just a few to get us going again.
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