In 2018, Republican Ron DeSantis defeated Democrat Andrew Gillum in Florida's gubernatorial race. Former President Donald Trump recently claimed he played a key part in the Republican victory by stopping supposed election fraud.
"I was all in for Ron, and he beat Gillum, but after the Race, when votes were being stolen by the corrupt Election process in Broward County, and Ron was going down ten thousand votes a day, along with now-Senator Rick Scott, I sent in the FBI and the U.S. Attorneys," reads a Nov. 10 Truth Social post from Trump, which generated more than 16,000 likes in less than a week.
Trump claims that "the ballot theft immediately ended, just prior to them running out of the votes necessary to win" and that he stopped DeSantis' election from being stolen.
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The post was shared widely on Facebook and Instagram, where it generated hundreds of interactions, according to the social media insights tool CrowdTangle.
But Trump's claim is pure fiction, contradicting what happened in 2018 on multiple levels.
Broward County officials told USA TODAY there was no federal law enforcement presence during the 2018 race, and there were no stolen votes either. Multiple investigations and reviews found no sign of fraud in Broward County during the 2018 election.
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