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Claim: former President Donald Trump claimed he won the state of Nevada in the 2016 and 2020 elections (Article, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2024-10-01): The Silver State has voted Democrat for the last several elections, but there are signs of a possible turnaround by the Republicans. [...] The state proved pivotal in the 2020 election, backing Mr Biden. He has often spoken of his connection to the working-class city of Scranton, where he grew up. [...] The Badger State also picked the winning presidential candidate in both 2016 and 2020, by a margin of little more than 20,000 votes each time.
Claim: former President Donald Trump claimed he won the state of Nevada in the 2016 and 2020 elections (Article, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2024-09-12): The former president’s false claims — widely debunked as misinformation, or outright lies — aren’t new: He’s been saying for years that the US electoral system is rife with voter fraud. [...] Four years later, as he ran for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, Trump accused his rival Senator Ted Cruz of winning the Iowa caucuses through "fraud". He demanded the vote either be nullified or held again. [...] And in 2020, that incendiary rhetoric reached new heights with the so-called "Big Lie": the false claim that Democrats stole that year’s election, resulting in Trump's loss to US President Joe Biden.
Claim: former President Donald Trump claimed he won the state of Nevada in the 2016 and 2020 elections (Article, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2022-01-06): WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Thursday clung to his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen as the nation marked the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. Reacting to President Joe Biden, who blamed him for the deadly event, Trump issued statements repeating his assertions that the voting was rigged. Those claims have been thoroughly debunked. READ MORE: Trump maintains grip on Republican Party despite violent insurrection In a speech marking the anniversary, Biden said Trump’s falsehoods about the 2020 election fueled the riot. Biden said the election was the most scrutinized in U.S. history, and that the riot was an un-American attempt to derail democracy incited by a politician who couldn’t accept the people’s will. A look at the claims: TRUMP, on the Biden administration: ""That’s what you get when you have a rigged Election." TRUMP: "In actuality, the Big Lie was the Election itself." THE FACTS: To be clear, no widespread corruption was found and no election was stolen from Trump. Biden earned 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232, the same margin that Trump had when he beat Hillary Clinton in 2016, which he repeatedly described as a "landslide."
Claim: former President Donald Trump claimed he won the state of Nevada in the 2016 and 2020 elections (Article, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2023-07-03): Former President Donald Trump said in 2016 that a president under indictment would "cripple the operations of our government" and create an "unprecedented constitutional crisis" – years before he himself was indicted on federal charges while running for a second term as president. [...] "We could very well have a sitting president under felony indictment and ultimately a criminal trial," Trump said during a November 5, 2016, campaign rally in Reno, Nevada, reviewed by CNN’s KFile. "It would grind government to a halt."
Claim: former President Donald Trump claimed he won the state of Nevada in the 2016 and 2020 elections (Article, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2024-06-10): A woman holds an umbrella as she waits for Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump to attend a campaign event in Las Vegas, June 9, 2024. Photo by Brendan McDermid/Reuters Trump’s Nevada rally, his third in the state this year, came on the tail end of a Western swing that included several high-dollar fundraisers where he was expected to rake in millions of dollars. Democrat Hillary Clinton won Nevada in 2016 as did President Joe Biden in 2020, but Nevada was the only battleground state where Trump did better against Biden than Clinton. In the 2022 midterms, Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak, a Democrat, was the only incumbent governor who did not win reelection. Trump hopes his strength among working-class voters and growing interest from Latinos will push him to victory in the state. In a play for Nevada’s massive service-sector workforce, Trump said he’d seek to eliminate taxes on tips, a major source of income for food servers, bartenders and others who power glitzy Las Vegas hotels. The Culinary Union Secretary-Treasurer Ted Pappageorge criticized Trump for making that promise, a measure he said the union has fought for decades.
Claim: former President Donald Trump claimed he won the state of Nevada in the 2016 and 2020 elections (Article, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2024-05-18): Former President Donald Trump said Friday that he won Minnesota in 2020, despite Democratic presidential candidates carrying the state for more than 40 years. "I thought we won it in 2016. I thought we won it in ’20 — I know we won it in 2020," he said during a speech at the Minnesota GOP dinner in St. Paul. Trump added, "We got to watch those votes." [...] However, Trump lost the state in 2020 by more than 20,000 votes. He carried it in 2016, becoming the first Republican to win the state since Ronald Reagan in 1984.
Claim: former President Donald Trump claimed he won the state of Nevada in the 2016 and 2020 elections (Article, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2024-08-20): Days after the 2020 election, Walter Nowosad, a commissioner in Douglas County, Nevada, shared an article in which disgraced Trump lawyer Sidney Powell (falsely) claimed that Trump’s legal team had found evidence of voter fraud that could overturn the election results in multiple states. "Someone’s hand has been discovered in the cookie jar," wrote Nowosad. Another Douglas County commissioner, Danny Tarkanian, wrote in November 2022 that mail-in ballots are "the biggest issue in our election integrity, along with ballot harvesting. This is what the GOP should be questioning." [...] On June 11, Republican Clara Andriola, who was expelled from her local party for not towing the line on election denialism, faced off against Mark Lawson, a former firefighter who was fired for possession and distribution of steroids and who has questioned the results of the 2020 election. Andriola won, but local Republicans cited problems with mail-in ballots — and a bizarre claim about someone in a vote-counting room with a thumb drive — as evidence of fraud. On June 21, Washoe County commissioners Michael Clark and Jeanne Herman, both Republicans, voted against certifying the results of the primary. Andriola voted with the commission’s two Democrats to certify results, which showed her beating Lawson by 1,725 votes. [...] Counties like Washoe, where Biden won by 4.5 points in 2020, will be crucial to determining the outcome in Nevada this year — and even the presidential election. Delays or refusals to certify results would hold up statewide certification and vote tallies, and potentially the results of the presidential election itself.
Claim: former President Donald Trump claimed he won the state of Nevada in the 2016 and 2020 elections (Article, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2024-09-04): Trump benefitted from the system in Maine, a blue state, where he won a single electoral college vote in 2016 and 2020 despite losing statewide. Democrats are less optimistic about a Maine sweep, party officials say, than winning one of Nebraska’s electoral votes. [...] Republican Rep. Don Bacon has thrived – and survived politically for nearly a decade – because of that independent streak of the district and increasingly rare ticket-splitters. Trump won here in 2016, but lost in 2020. [...] While Trump is expected to carry the statewide vote in Nebraska by a wide margin – he won about 58% in 2016 and 2020 – it’s an open question how much he intends to compete in the competitive 2nd District. Trump signs dot the roadside, but his campaign and allies have spent only a few thousand dollars in advertising here.
Claim: former President Donald Trump claimed he won the state of Nevada in the 2016 and 2020 elections (Article, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2020-09-13): At a campaign rally in Nevada, President Donald Trump on Saturday repeated unsubstantiated claims that mail-in ballots would contribute to widespread voter fraud in the November election. [...] Trump addressed a sea of supporters Saturday evening on the tarmac of Nevada's Minden-Tahoe Airport. Many of those gathered were not wearing masks or practicing social distancing despite the coronavirus pandemic. [...] Trump appears to face long odds in Nevada, which gave its six electoral votes to Hillary Clinton in 2016. His campaign is now hoping to score a backup route to victory if his luck fails to turn in other battleground states.
Claim: former President Donald Trump claimed he won the state of Nevada in the 2016 and 2020 elections (Article, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2020-12-16): On August 3, 2020, after a rushed special session, Nevada legislators made drastic changes to the State's election law by adopting a bill known as Assembly Bill No. 4 (AB 4). The vulnerabilities of this statute were obvious: It provided for universal mail voting without sufficient safeguards to authenticate voters or ensure the fundamental requirement that only one ballot was sent to each legally qualified voter. This was aggravated by election officials' failure to clean known deficiencies in their voter rolls. Because of AB 4, the number of mail ballots rocketed from about 70,000 in 2016 to over 690,000 this year. [...] My question to you is: In my State, when someone votes twice--and we do have that occasionally, about 50 times a year that that actually occurs in our State--we prosecute individuals that vote twice. Of this 130,000 instances that you have identified from the 2020 election in Nevada, do you know of any prosecutions currently going on in Nevada for any voter fraud? [...] I would also publicly like to thank Nevada's election workers who, despite Mr. Binnall's comments in the media and here today, worked long hours to ensure that Nevada's elections were free, fair, and secure. Both our Republican Secretary of
Claim: former President Donald Trump claimed he won the state of Nevada in the 2016 and 2020 elections (Article, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2024-08-28): As part of Donald Trump and his allies’ nationwide effort to undermine the 2020 presidential election, 84 total fake electors across seven states signed false electoral certificates claiming that Trump won the election in their states. As of July 2024, fake electors from Arizona, Georgia, Michigan and Nevada have been charged with crimes, and the remaining fake electors in New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin do not currently face charges. [...] The case against Nevada’s six fake electors was dismissed on June 21, 2024 with the judge explaining that the cases needed to refiled in Douglas County, Nevada where the false electoral certificates were originally signed. The judge who dismissed the case without prejudice called the scheme "a crime that has occurred in another jurisdiction." [...] Nevada - Indictment - Nevada judge dismisses charges against 6 Republicans who falsely declared Trump the winner in 2020
Claim: former President Donald Trump claimed he won the state of Nevada in the 2016 and 2020 elections (Article, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2023-09-19): We also reviewed his statements about mail-in ballots this month and found he has been repeatedly spreading misinformation in particular about foreign governments making up "counterfeit ballots" and Democrats sending out "unsolicited ballots" to rig the election. He also has been repeatedly spreading false information about Nevada, saying he will "win this state easily," if not for mail-in ballots — even though Trump lost Nevada in 2016 and is trailing in the polls there again this election. [...] But that isn’t the case. As is true elsewhere, the actual mechanics of the election under Nevada state law are overseen by the secretary of state. And in this case that is Barbara Cegavske — a Republican. She is the state’s third-highest elected official and doesn’t work for the governor. [...] Trump Campaign Exaggerates Potential for Mail-in Voting Fraud After Election, Aug. 14. The Trump campaign claims there’s a potential for "massive fraud" in Nevada because the Postal Service doesn’t postmark the state’s prepaid return ballot envelopes. That’s false. USPS policy is to postmark all ballots.
Claim: former President Donald Trump claimed he won the state of Nevada in the 2016 and 2020 elections (Article, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2020-12-09): Trump claim: Trump has repeated unfounded claims that election officials in Democratic-leaning Clark County manipulated a machine used to verify signatures to "allow large numbers of ballots to be counted that otherwise would never have passed muster." In a 46-minute video posted online, Trump claimed that officials had "intentionally lowered" the machine’s standard for matching a ballot signature to signatures on file. "This machine was set at the lowest level, according to one report," he said. "They said you could sign your name as Santa Claus and it would be accepted." [...] The Trump campaign appealed the judge’s ruling to the Nevada Supreme Court, which declined to order any changes to Clark County’s process, finding that the campaign did not have sufficient evidence to back up its allegations. Then other Republicans filed a lawsuit making similar claims in federal court, adding a new claim that the Agilis machine’s failure had disenfranchised one voter, Jill Stokke. Stokke said she went to vote in person, only to learn that county records showed her as already having cast a mail ballot. Her lawyers argued that was the fault of the Agilis machine, which had wrongly verified someone else’s signature as Stokke’s. [...] The Trump campaign, in a lawsuit seeking to overturn the election results in Nevada, is still arguing that the Agilis machine is deeply flawed.
Claim: former President Donald Trump claimed he won the state of Nevada in the 2016 and 2020 elections (Article, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2023-10-11): WASHINGTON (AP) — With Donald Trump facing felony charges over his attempts to overturn the 2020 election, the former president is flooding the airwaves and his social media platform with distortions, misinformation and unfounded conspiracy theories about his defeat. [...] In Nevada, the then-secretary of state, Republican Barbara Cegavske, and her office reviewed tens of thousands of allegations of possible voter fraud identified by the Nevada Republican Party but found that almost all were based on incomplete information and a lack of understanding of the state’s voting and registration procedures. For example, Cegavske’s investigation found that of 1,506 alleged instances of ballots being cast in the name of deceased individuals, only 10 warranted further investigation by law enforcement. Similarly, 10 out of 1,778 allegations of double-voting called for further investigation. Biden won Nevada by 33,596 votes, or 2.4 percentage points. [...] Biden won Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and their 79 Electoral College votes by a combined 311,257 votes out of 25.5 million ballots cast. The disputed ballots represent just 0.15% of his victory margin in those states.
Claim: former President Donald Trump claimed he won the state of Nevada in the 2016 and 2020 elections (Article, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2024-08-29): Richardson cast his ballot for Republican Donald Trump in 2016. But after being disillusioned by Trump’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Richardson chose Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
Claim: former President Donald Trump claimed he won the state of Nevada in the 2016 and 2020 elections (Article, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2024-10-09): After leaving office [edit]Since leaving office, Trump has continued to insist that he won the 2020 election. He reportedly dislikes the term "former president", and his official statements refer to him as "the 45th President" or simply as "45", as on his new website, www.45office.com.[121] During his public speeches, he insists that massive election fraud caused his loss, saying, "This was the scam of the century and this was the crime of the century"[122] and "We won the election twice [2016 and 2020] and it's possible we'll have to win it a third time [2024]."[123] [...] [edit]"Trump won" is a political slogan adopted by Trump supporters who, contrary to the election results, believe that Trump won the 2020 U.S. presidential election.[646][647] These claims were described by former US Attorney General William Barr as "bullshit" in sworn deposition testimony,[648][649] and are called a "big lie" by many, including Senator Mitt Romney.[650] [...] - ^ Komenda, Ed (November 4, 2020). "Nevada election 2020: Vote challengers gather outside election department in Las Vegas". Reno Gazette Journal. Archived from the original on November 18, 2020. Retrieved November 17, 2020.
Claim: former President Donald Trump claimed he won the state of Nevada in the 2016 and 2020 elections (Article, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2020-12-02): Of course, Trump is no stranger to narrow victories. He won the 2016 election thanks to just under 80,000 combined votes in three of those six key states.
Claim: former President Donald Trump claimed he won the state of Nevada in the 2016 and 2020 elections (Article, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2024-10-02): U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan unsealed a lengthy and partly redacted motion Wednesday that charts special counsel Jack Smith’s final argument before November that former President Donald Trump acted in a private capacity when he co-conspired to overturn the 2020 election. [...] In Nevada, Trump allegedly ignored warnings about spreading lies about the state’s election results. Smith wrote: "Notwithstanding the RNC Chief Counsel’s warning, the defendant re-tweeted and amplified news of the lawsuit on November 24, calling it ‘Big News!’ that a Nevada Court had agreed to hear it. But the defendant did not similarly promote the fact that within two weeks, on December 4, the Nevada District Court dismissed Law v. Whitmer, finding in a detailed opinion that ‘there is no credible or reliable evidence that the 2020 General Election in Nevada was affected by fraud,’ including through the signature-match machines, and that Biden won the election in the state." [...] As early as December 2020, Trump and his allies "developed a new plan regarding targeted states that the defendant had lost (Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin): to organize the people who would have served as the defendant’s electors had he won the popular vote, and cause them to sign and send to Pence, as President of the Senate, certificates in which they falsely represent themselves as legitimate electors who had cast electoral votes for the defendant," Smith wrote.
Claim: purports the Barbie movie is banned in Saudi Arabia (Post, 2023-07-31)
Evidence (2023-07-31): The claim is false. The movie is slated for release in Saudi Arabia on Aug. 31, according to Vox Cinemas’ website.
Claim: purports the Barbie movie is banned in Saudi Arabia (Post, 2023-07-31)
Evidence (2023-08-11): While Kuwait's stance on why exactly "Barbie" was banned is rather vague, Lebanon has been much more explicit in its reasoning. According to a report from The Associated Press, Culture Minister of Lebanon Mohhammad Mortada moved to ban the film under the opinion that it "contradicts values of faith and morality" and "promotes homosexuality and sexual transformation." Notably, "Barbie" does not feature any major characters who are explicitly confirmed to be gay. [...] While the situation regarding the release of "Barbie" in Middle Eastern countries seemed to be teetering on the verge of a complete breakdown — as was apparently the case with Lebanon and Kuwait — it appears that Warner Bros. and various other countries have reached unspecified agreements that have allowed the movie to see a release in most territories. A week after its initial report on the delay, Variety noted that "Barbie" would indeed see a release in Saudi Arabia, among other countries, with the delay itself being considerably shortened. [...] Before "Barbie" saw a ban in Kuwait and Lebanon, the film received a ban in both the territories of Vietnam and the Philippines for a very different reason. Per Variety, the countries have banned "Barbie" due to one brief scene in which a map — the one Kate McKinnon's Weird Barbie shows to Margot Robbie's Barbie — includes a visual indicator approximating the "nine dash line" in the South China Sea.
Claim: purports the Barbie movie is banned in Saudi Arabia (Post, 2023-07-31)
Evidence (2023-08-10): Barbie banned in Kuwait as Lebanon urges action The Barbie film has been banned in Kuwait and faces calls for a ban in Lebanon amid criticism in the Arab world of the movie's social values. [...] On Wednesday, the Lebanese Culture Minister Mohammad Mortada asked the interior ministry to "take all necessary measures to ban" Barbie.
Claim: purports the Barbie movie is banned in Saudi Arabia (Post, 2023-07-31)
Evidence (2023-07-31): ALBAWABA- The movie "Barbie" has officially been banned in Saudi Arabia, causing a stir among social media users who had shown considerable interest in its screening. This ban also extends to several other Gulf Arab countries, with Saudi Arabia being notably affected. [...] It's worth noting that earlier, Vietnam also banned the screening of the Barbie film, citing scenes depicting a map that affirms China's sovereignty over disputed areas in the South China Sea.
Claim: purports the Barbie movie is banned in Saudi Arabia (Post, 2023-07-31)
Evidence (2023-08-02): Middle East Release of 'Barbie' Delayed After Censors Demand Cuts 'Barbie' may end up banned entirely in Saudi Arabia and other countries, with Warner Bros. considered unlikely to make cuts over supposed LGBTQ themes Screenings of Warner Bros.’ "Barbie" are being pushed back across the Middle East, following requests by local censors to edit out purported references to LGBTQ themes, American entertainment publication Variety reported on Tuesday.
Claim: purports the Barbie movie is banned in Saudi Arabia (Post, 2023-07-31)
Evidence (2023-08-14): The film, which has netted over $1 billion worldwide to date, premiered in the United States on July 9 and was subsequently released in numerous other countries, including in the Middle East and North Africa. It opened in Morocco and Tunisia on July 19, Algeria and Israel on July 20, Turkey on July 21, and Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates on August 10. Barbie is scheduled to be released in Egypt on August 30, according to a statement by Safwat al-Helbawy, the head of a major Egyptian movie distribution company. [...] "The UAE Media Council has granted the Barbie movie the approval to be screened in the UAE’s licensed cinemas after completing the necessary procedures in line with the standards of media content and the UAE age classification," the UAE Media Council announced on Thursday. [...] Previous straight-to-video Barbie movies have been banned in Saudi Arabia for their portrayal of equal gender roles. By allowing Barbie to open, Saudi Arabia may be attempting to shape its global image as more culturally progressive, despite the challenge presented by the movie’s themes.
Claim: purports the Barbie movie is banned in Saudi Arabia (Post, 2023-07-31)
Evidence (2023-08-17): Barbie film opens in Saudi Arabia to wide acclaim After being banned in several Arab countries, blockbuster film "Barbie" opens in Saudi Arabia and locals are packing cinemas. Becky Anderson looks at the Kingdom's culture changes.