Trump abruptly dropped cheating allegations as soon as he won

During the 2024 campaign, the president-elect Donald Trump He claimed without evidence that “rigging” and voter fraud by Democrats had occurred. In that case winner declared Those claims came to an abrupt end in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

As voting took place on Tuesday afternoon, Trump claimed on social media that there was “massive fraud” in Philadelphia.

“There’s a lot of talk in Philadelphia about major TRICKS. Law Enforcement is coming!!!” he said on social media. One separate post He said there was a similar law enforcement response in Detroit.

In both cities, law enforcement officials scrambled to reassure voters that there was no evidence of cheating or fraud.

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said Tuesday: “has no basis in fact” According to Trump’s claim.

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

David Becker, executive director of the Center for Election Innovation and Research, a nonprofit that works with Republican and Democratic election officials to strengthen confidence in elections, said the change in tone after Trump’s win should reveal that Trump’s claims of fraud are not true.

“This was never about whether our system was actually secure. It was never about whether the election could be trusted or the policies that could make the election more secure, it was just about the outcome,” he said.

President Joe Biden on Thursday echoed this sentiment When he said Americans should put aside questions about the integrity of the election after Trump won the 2024 race outright.

“I hope we can answer the question about the integrity of the American voting system. It is honest, fair and transparent. It can be trusted whether he wins or loses,” Biden said in his statement from the Rose Garden.

Claire Zunk, the RNC’s Director of Election Integrity Communications, did not answer questions about why Trump stopped talking about fraud and whether he still believes it was happening, instead issuing a statement praising the RNC’s work.

“President Trump has highlighted real problems in our election system on and before Election Day, and we remain vigilant and responsive on the ground,” Zunk said in a statement. he said. “That’s exactly why the RNC and the Trump Campaign created an unprecedented election integrity program, so we could fix problems before the election and be ready to take action as votes were cast and counted. We responded in real time, stopped threats to our elections, and protected legal votes.”

Slander against Pennsylvania and Michigan until Trump wins

At a rally held in Pennsylvania the day before the election, Trump warned the crowd for 20 minutes that there might be corruption in the state.

“They’re fighting so hard to steal this damn thing,” he said. “Look at what’s going on in your state, every day they talk about extending working hours; has anyone heard of these things?”

Trump’s former lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, told reporters on Election Day: “No corruption in Philadelphia and Detroit, no election, which they’re doing even though in practice they don’t have to stay.”

Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee did not object to the results in Philadelphia, where Trump received 20% of the vote, or Detroit, where he received about 8% of the vote. Results are not final until certified by the government.

Trump’s history of false fraud claims

This isn’t Trump’s first claim. During the 2016 primaries, Trump accused fellow Republican Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) of “fraud” when Cruz won the Iowa caucuses. He called the primary in Colorado “rigged.” In the general election, when he won the Electoral College but failed to get the popular vote, he began making more consistent allegations of fraud, but offered no evidence to support them.

“If you take out the millions of people who voted illegally, I won the popular vote,” he said on social media – without presenting any evidence.

Trump’s claims that have been repeatedly debunked that the 2020 election was stolen from him was an important part The most important feature of the 2024 campaign was its frequent inclusion in rally speeches. This year, his campaign and the Republican National Committee have filed a total of 175 lawsuits over issues such as allegations that noncitizens appeared on voter rolls before the election; Many saw this as an effort to lay the groundwork to challenge the election results.

Hope Trump’s victory will calm his supporters

Surveys showed: very Trump supporters were much more likely Supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris believe there will be fraud in the election.

Becker said he hoped Trump’s victory would usher in “some restoration of sanity” about whether American elections are safe and secure.

“The idea that people could believe this lie, this seemingly ridiculous lie, that Joe Biden, as the candidate, rigged the election at a time when Trump was President of the United States and controlled the executive branch, but as President of the United States, they could believe this lie,” Becker said. “It must reveal the truth about our election system,” he said.

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

But they are comparing the final numbers from the 2020 election with the partial results in 2024.

Millions of mail-in votes are still being counted. Although the remaining 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. Harris, for example, had received more than 69 million votes as of Friday morning, compared to 60 million on Wednesday morning, when the far-right accusations began. Votes are still being counted in some Democratic-dominated states, such as California, where voting by mail is very common.

Conservative media personality Benny Johnson noted the difference in Democratic vote numbers between 2020 and 2024 “I was very surprised” Abbreviation for questionable and failed Ohio Republican congressional candidate JR Majewski said the results Proved that “2020 was stolen”

Dinesh D’Souza “Kamala gets 60 million votes in 2024” wrote to xformerly known as Twitter, on Wednesday. “Does anyone really believe Biden got 80 million in 2020? Where did these 20 million Democratic voters go? The truth is they never existed.”

Even though Trump won in 2016, he appointed a panel to investigate election fraud, but then Disbanded suddenly in 2018 After finding no concrete evidence that American elections were corrupt.

On Friday, Trump hinted that he might not be done with the election fraud issue. Inside A Real Social post Attacking California Governor Gavin Newsom, Trump said, “As a “REPRESENTATIVE” of the United States of America in Voting and Elections, I WILL DEMAND THAT VOTER ID AND PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP ARE A NECESSARY PART AND COMPONENT OF THE VOTING PROCESS!”