FLORENCE, S.C. (WBTW) — Former president Donald Trump held a rally Saturday in Florence which contained false and misleading claims.
Below is a look at some of the claims made during the rally.
Facts: This is false.
During the rally, Trump said there’s overwhelming evidence the election was fraudulent, but offered no evidence. He also said republicans need a landslide win in the midterm elections, suggesting that the democrats would try cheat.
There was no widespread fraud in the 2020 election that would’ve changed the outcome. The Associated Press looked at election fraud in states where Trump claimed he won, even though he didn’t. In those states, the Associated Press found fewer than 475 instances of voter fraud, not nearly enough to change the outcome.
The Associated Press reported that not every instance of voter fraud discovered were votes for Biden and in most cases the fraudulent ballots were not even counted.
Facts: This is misleading.
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