President Donald Trump held a press conference on Thursday as key battleground states were continuing to count their ballots. Trump is contesting the ballot counting process in several states.
The VERIFY team is fact-checking the claims he made throughout the speech.
TRUMP: “If you count the legal votes, I easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us. If you count the votes that came in late. We’re looking at them very strongly, but a lot of votes came in late.”
This claim is FALSE on multiple levels.
At this point, no state has reported processing any “illegal” or “late” votes.
His talk about “votes that came in late,” is also misleading. At this point, there are no states reporting that they’re processing “late” ballots.
The National Conference of State Legislatures has a detailed breakdown of when states stopped accepting ballots via mail. In all states, as long as a ballot was received by Election Day, it is perfectly legal no matter how long it takes the state to process it. Many states also allowed ballots that were received after Election Day to be counted as long as they were postmarked by Nov. 3.
According to USA.gov, there are multiple types of voter fraud such as when someone “illegally casts a vote in the name of a dead person or someone who’s moved."
Voter fraud is considered a federal election crime. Trump’s campaign did not provide evidence to prove what he called “illegal votes” and his team hasn’t provided any evidence of that.
TRUMP: “We kept the Senate despite having twice as many seats to defend as Democrats."
While it's possible the Republicans hold on to the Senate, that's not final yet. This claim is currently FALSE
Currently, both Democrats and Republicans are projected to hold 48 seats. There are four seats that are undecided.
One of the final three seats, that of North Carolina Republican Thom Tillis, looks likely to go in the Republicans’ favor, although the results are still not final. Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan is also expected to hold onto his seat. #WakeUpCLT #Decision2020 #ElectionDay
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