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Mon Nov 2, 2020, 12:20 PM Nov 2020

Trump's top election falsehoods to watch for on Election Day (Daniel Dale)

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/02/politics/fact-check-trump-election-day/index.html

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has spent months making false claims in a baseless attempt to raise questions over the integrity of the presidential election.

With Election Day just a day away, it's worth explaining again why the President's anecdotes and assertions are inaccurate. Here's a quick fact check breakdown of 16 of his election-related statements.

Democrats and cheating

Trump has claimed that he can only lose the election if Democrats commit "massive fraud." This is simply not true. Democrats won control of the House of Representatives in a free and fair 2018 midterm election, and Trump's opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, has consistently led in national polls of the 2020 race -- plus many polls of key battleground states.

Mail-in voting and fraud

Trump has broadly declared that mail-in voting is rife with fraud. That's just false, too. While fraud cases do occur, they are very rare.

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