Trump and his allies had spent months seeding doubt in the integrity of American voting systems, warning of inevitable fraud in the 2024 election.
Despite initial claims of cheating in places like Philadelphia and Detroit, Trump quickly pivoted to celebrate early election night results showing him in the lead.
The strategy of preemptively claiming election fraud if losing but ignoring it if winning was part of Trump’s playbook, adopted by many in his party.
Despite losing the 2020 election, Trump’s false claims of a stolen election have convinced over half of Republicans that Biden was not legitimately elected.
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