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Former President Donald Trump made a number of false claims in a speech Tuesday evening after CNN and different media retailers projected that he would win the Republican presidential main in New Hampshire.
CNN additionally watched rival candidate Nikki Haley’s Tuesday evening speech in New Hampshire; Haley’s claims have been both correct or too common to truth examine. Here’s a truth examine of a few of Trump’s assertions.
Trump repeated a few of his acquainted lies concerning the 2020 presidential election.
At one level, he claimed, as he has repeatedly prior to now, that “they used Covid to cheat.” At one other level, he claimed that along with profitable in 2016, “we additionally gained in 2020 – by extra. And we did a lot better in 2020 than we did in 2016.” He dismissively stated, “However as they stated, we misplaced by a whisker.”
Info First: Trump’s claims are false. He misplaced the 2020 election truthful and sq. to Joe Biden, by a 306 to 232 margin within the Electoral Faculty, and likewise misplaced New Hampshire in that election. There stays no proof of any fraud even near widespread sufficient to have modified the result in any state.
Democrats and taxes
Trump Tuesday evening stated, “Do they hate our nation? They need to hate our nation. As a result of there’s no different motive that they are often doing the issues they do. Have a look – the taxes, they wish to elevate your taxes instances 4.”
Info First: That is false. Neither Biden nor different prime Democrats are proposing something near quadrupling folks’s taxes.
CNN previously fact-checked an identical Trump declare that “they wish to double, triple every little thing.”
Howard Gleckman, senior fellow within the City-Brookings Tax Coverage Middle on the City Institute suppose tank, stated in a November electronic mail: “I don’t know what ‘they wish to double, triple every little thing’ means. But when he’s suggesting that Biden would ‘double, triple’ federal earnings taxes, he’s simply making up numbers. There isn’t any proof to help that declare.”
Gleckman stated his group’s evaluation of Biden’s price range proposal for fiscal 2024, which included his most up-to-date tax plan, discovered that the key tax provisions would “would elevate taxes by a median of $2,290, or scale back taxable earnings by 2.3 %.”
Trump claimed that he has all the time gained the state – not solely in Republican primaries however generally elections.
“You recognize we gained New Hampshire 3 times now three. We win it each time. We win the first. We win the generals. We gained it and it’s a really, very particular place to me.” Trump stated.
Info First: Trump’s declare is fake. He lost New Hampshire to Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton within the 2016 common election and to Democratic candidate Joe Biden in the 2020 general election, although he did win the Republican main every time.
Criticizing Republican New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, a supporter of Haley, Trump stated that due to Sununu’s incompetence, “within the Republican main, they accepted Democrats to vote. In truth, I believe that they had 4,000 Democrats – Democrats earlier than October 6 – they already voted. Now, they’re solely voting as a result of they wish to make me look as dangerous as doable.”
Info First: Trump’s claims are deceptive at finest. Individuals registered as Democrats weren’t allowed to vote in New Hampshire’s Republican main. Solely registered Republicans and independents (folks registered as “undeclared”) have been allowed to forged ballots in that main. Whereas it’s true that nearly 4,000 people who had been registered as Democrats switched their affiliation to both undeclared or Republican by October 6, the last day to change in time to probably forged a poll within the GOP main, it’s not but clear what number of of those folks really ended up voting. And it’s vital to notice that New Hampshire made its primaries open to independents decades earlier than Sununu turned governor in 2017.
Additionally, whereas Trump was complaining about folks previously registered as Democrats being permitted to vote within the Republican main, it’s normal for states to permit folks to change affiliations by a sure date to be able to take part in one other get together’s main – and a few states have switching deadlines nearer to an election day than New Hampshire does. In Trump’s state of Florida, to name one, voters can swap from Democratic to Republican by February 20 and forged a poll within the Republican main within the early voting window that begins lower than three weeks later or in individual a month in a while the March 19 election day. (In contrast to in New Hampshire, independents can’t forged Republican main ballots there.)
Lastly, the motivations of the current New Hampshire affiliation-switchers usually are not almost as clear as Trump steered. Whereas some may need certainly switched with the only real intention of opposing him, some others may need sincerely determined that they now not noticed themselves as Democrats. There was every kind of affiliation-switching earlier than October 6. For instance, the New Hampshire Bulletin reported that 719 folks switched from Republican to undeclared and 132 folks switched from undeclared to Republican.