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Trump's Latest Bogus Claim About Mail-In Vote Fraud in Pennsylvania - FactCheck.org

  • Bias Rating

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    90% ReliableExcellent

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -43% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Trump posted on Truth Social on Sept. 8.
37% : In other words, not an "election expert," as Trump described him.
35% : A Pew Research Center survey found that 65% of mail or absentee voters voted for Biden, while only 33% voted for Trump.)
27% : "In an analysis of the Rasmussen poll when Trump touted it last December, the Washington Post's Philip Bump wrote that the findings of the poll fail "the smell test.
26% : Trump has repeatedly made false claims about voter fraud, continuing to say the 2020 election was "rigged," despite the fact that his own aides, including his attorney general, told him his claims were baseless.
18% : In a post subsequent to the poll, the Heartland Institute argued, based on the "recently unearthed evidence indicating widespread mail-in voter fraud" indicated by the poll, that voter fraud swung the 2020 election from Trump to President Joe Biden.
17% : Pennsylvania is shaping up as one of the most important swing states of the 2024 election, which is likely why Trump singled out alleged voter fraud there.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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