President Donald Trump on Tuesday re-upped his long-standing false claims of a rigged 2020 election, seizing on what he described as 24,000 illegal votes uncovered in a review of voter and citizenship records to again assert that he won the election.

In the post on his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump claimed that the U.S. Census Bureau has begun checking voter records against citizenship records, and that of the first 128 million voters, “the Census Bureau proves that over 24,000 Noncitizens voted illegally!” He added that when the bureau examined the next tranche of 32 million votes, the number of fraudulent votes would “explode.”

Even taking Trump’s figure of 24,000 illegal votes at face value — a purported illegal voting share of less than two-hundredths of a percent — it would not establish that he won the 2020 election. Joe Biden won by more than 7 million votes, with his narrowest decisive margins including 10,457 votes in Arizona, 11,779 in Georgia and 20,682 in Wisconsin.

To successfully dispute the result, Trump would need to show not simply that illegal votes were cast somewhere in the country, but that enough of the invalid ballots were cast for Biden in the specific states needed to change the electoral college outcome.

Trump’s post offered no evidence about where the purported 24,000 voters cast ballots or which candidate they supported.

Nonetheless, Trump treated the review as a vindication. “I WON THE ELECTION!” he wrote on Truth Social.

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