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    Trump suddenly stopped claiming he cheated as soon as he won

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    During the 2024 campaign, President-elect Donald Trump claimed, without evidence, that Democratic “cheats” and voter fraud were taking place. When he was declared the winner early Wednesday morning, those claims ended abruptly.

    On Tuesday afternoon, as votes were being cast, Trump claimed on social media that there had been “massive fraud” in Philadelphia.

    “There’s a lot of talk about Massive Fraud in Philadelphia. Law enforcement is coming!!!” he said on social networks. One separate post he said there was a similar law enforcement response in Detroit.

    Law enforcement officials in both cities scrambled to assure voters there was no evidence of cheating or fraud.

    Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said Tuesday that there was “no factual basis” to Trump’s claim.

    Trump has not mentioned voter fraud since the race was called.

    The change in tone after Trump’s win should signal that Trump’s claims of fraud were not real, said David Becker, executive director of the nonprofit Center for Election Innovation and Research, which works with Republican and Democratic election officials to build trust. in the elections.

    “It was never about the safety of our system. It was never about whether or not the elections could be trusted or the policies that could make the elections safer or not, it was just the outcome,” he said.

    Thursday, President Joe Biden he echoed that feeling when he said Americans should settle questions about the integrity of the election after Trump won the 2024 race decisively.

    “I hope we can put an end to the question of the integrity of the American electoral system. It is honest, fair and transparent. And it can be trusted, win or lose,” Biden said in remarks from the Rose Garden.

    Claire Zunk, the RNC’s election integrity communications director, did not respond to questions about why Trump stopped talking about fraud and whether he still believes it occurred, but instead offered a statement praising the RNC’s work.

    “President Trump called attention to real problems in our election system on and before Election Day, and we continue to be vigilant and responsive on the ground,” Zunk said in a statement. “That’s exactly why the RNC and the Trump Campaign built an unprecedented election integrity program — so we could fix problems before the election and be ready to act while the votes were being cast and counted. We responded in real time, stopped threats to our elections. and protected legal votes.”

    Sprinkles on Pennsylvania and Michigan until Trump wins them

    At a rally in Pennsylvania the day before the election, Trump spent 20 minutes warning the crowd that there would be fraud in the state.

    “They fight so hard to steal this bastard,” he said. “Look at what’s happening in your state, every day there’s talk of extending hours; Who has heard of this stuff?”

    Former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani told reporters on Election Day that “if there’s no fraud in Philadelphia and Detroit, there’s no election, they’re doing it even when they don’t have to stay in practice.”

    The Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee did not dispute the results in Philadelphia, where Trump won 20 percent of the vote, or in Detroit, where he won about 8 percent of the vote. The results are not final until they are certified by the state.

    Trump’s baseless history of fraud

    It’s not the first time Trump has made the claim. In the 2016 primaries, Trump accused fellow Republican Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) of “fraud” when Cruz won the Iowa caucuses. In Colorado, he called the mayor a “butcher.” In the general election, when he won the Electoral College but failed to win the popular vote, he began making more consistent claims of fraud, all without providing evidence to support them.

    “We won the popular vote if you subtract the millions of people who voted illegally,” he said on social networks – without providing any evidence.

    Trump’s claims repeatedly debunked that the 2020 election was stolen from him was a major part from his 2024 campaign, often featured in his rally speeches. This year, his campaign and the Republican National Committee filed 175 lawsuits before the election over issues such as claims that noncitizens are on voter rolls, in what many saw as an effort to lay the groundwork for contesting the election results.

    A hope that Trump’s victory reassures his supporters

    Polls have shown that many Trump supporters were far more likely than supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris to believe the election will be rigged.

    Becker said he hoped Trump’s victory would begin “some restoration of the mood” about American elections being safe and secure.

    “The idea that people might believe the lie, which is ridiculous on its face, that Joe Biden, as a candidate, somehow rigged an election when Trump was president of the United States and controlled the executive branch, but that’s as president of the United States. , he couldn’t do it, that should reveal the truth about our election system,” Becker said.

    However, some on the far right argue that Trump’s victory in 2024 proves that the 2020 election was stolen. They did so by comparing the 80 million votes Biden received in 2020 to the number of votes counted for Vice President Kamala Harris as of Wednesday morning, which was closer to 60 million. They argue that the 20 million vote discrepancy is proof that Democrats cheated in 2020.

    But, they compare the final numbers from the 2020 election with the 2024 partial results.

    Millions of postal votes are still being counted. While the outstanding votes are not enough to change the outcome of the election, the total number of votes received by Harris and Trump is not yet official and is expected to increase by several million. For example, as of Friday morning, Harris had received more than 69 million votes, compared to the 60 million he had Wednesday morning, when the far-right accusations began. Some heavily Democratic states where mail-in voting is very common, such as California, are still counting ballots.

    Conservative media personality Benny Johnson called the 2020 to 2024 vote count gap for Democrats “very high”, short for suspect and Ohio Republican congressional candidate JR Majewski said the results proved that “2020 was stolen”.

    “Kamala got 60 million votes in 2024,” said Dinesh D’Souza wrote on Xformer Twitter, Wednesday. “Does anyone really believe Biden got 80 million in 2020? Where did the 20 million Democratic voters go? The truth is that they never existed.”

    Despite winning in 2016, Trump appointed a panel to investigate election fraud, but then abruptly abolished it in 2018 after finding no concrete evidence that American elections are corrupt.

    On Friday, Trump hinted that he may not be done with the voter fraud issue. In a Social Truth post attacking California Governor Gavin Newsom, Trump said that “as an ‘AGENT’ for the United States of America regarding voting and elections, I will demand that VOTER ID AND PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP BE A NECESSARY PART AND COMPONENT OF THE VOTING PROCESS!” “

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