Trump Is Flagged by Twitter For Claiming Biden’s Popular Vote Tally Was "Illegally Obtained"

Twitter flagged President Donald Trump below its civic integrity coverage after he continued to publish false claims in regards to the election, this time claiming that President-elect Joe Biden can take workplace solely “if he can show that his ridiculous” well-liked vote tally was not “fraudulently or illegally obtained.”

“If you see what occurred in Detroit, Atlanta, Philadelphia & Milwaukee, huge voter fraud, he’s acquired a giant unsolvable drawback,” the president added.

Biden can solely enter the White Home as President if he can show that his ridiculous “80,000,000 votes” weren’t fraudulently or illegally obtained. If you see what occurred in Detroit, Atlanta, Philadelphia & Milwaukee, huge voter fraud, he’s acquired a giant unsolvable drawback!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2020

Though the president has continued to say that the 2020 common election was fraudulent, there is no such thing as a proof to assist this. His personal safety companies have disputed the declare. In truth, a current statement from the federal Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Safety Company (CISA), a part of a joint assertion from the Election Infrastructure Authorities Coordinating Council and the Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Government Committees, revealed the companies discovered “no proof that any voting system deleted or misplaced votes, modified votes, or was in any means compromised.” The assertion went on to consult with the 2020 common election as “probably the most safe in American historical past.”

Biden gained the favored vote by a substantial margin. He acquired 80,063,589 votes, the very best variety of votes acquired by a presidential candidate within the historical past of america. Trump acquired 73,904,195 votes, probably the most acquired by a sitting president.

Trump has lengthy described his first election win as a “landslide,” however has failed to notice that Biden defeated him by the identical electoral margin Trump defeated Hillary Clinton by in 2016. However even that’s deceptive.

Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight “discovered that the share of electoral vote gained by Trump — 56.9 % — was properly under the historic common, 70.9 %,” in response to a Factcheck.org investigation performed in 2016.

Factcheck.org continued, noting that “Silver discovered that Trump’s share of electoral votes ranked 44th out of 54 elections going again to 1804. Earlier than that, he famous, “presidential electors solid two votes every, making it laborious to match them to present-day elections.”

Alan is a author, editor, and information junkie primarily based in New York.