Election Night Expectations - FactCheck.org

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : " Trump declared victory shortly before 2:30 a.m. on Nov. 4.
67% : " Nonetheless, two days before the election, Trump insisted, "We should know the result of the election on Nov. 3 -- the evening of Nov. 3.
64% : "Our nation's greatest political professionals were calling to congratulate me on our victory," Trump said.
56% : This election, Trump has said he'll immediately accept the results "if it's a fair election."
52% : At a Nov. 3 rally in Pennsylvania, Trump said he had heard it would take weeks to determine a winner.
47% : "We were up by 293,000 votes in Michigan, 112,000 votes in Wisconsin, 356,000 votes in Georgia, and nearly 700,000 votes in Pennsylvania, all swing states," Trump said in late December of that year.
40% : According to FiveThirtyEight's polling averages, Trump and Harris are virtually tied in Pennsylvania.
39% : But what Trump called "vote dumps" were just the routine reporting of the results of mail-in ballots.
37% : In an interview he gave to the House special committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, Trump Campaign Manager William Stepien said he met with Trump and others at the president's residence on election night and he recommended that Trump tell the nation that "votes were still being counted.
21% : When Trump repeatedly and baselessly suggested in the days before the election that counting mail-in ballots after Election Day would result in fraud, we wrote a story on Oct. 29, 2020, "Nothing Untoward About Counting Ballots After Election Day.
19% : "This is a fraud on the American public," Trump said of the ongoing vote-counting.
15% : Trump tweeted at 9:12 a.m. on Nov. 5. Even after Biden was projected the winner, in the weeks and months that followed, Trump continued to peddle the falsehood that votes counted after election night were somehow fraudulent.

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