Fact check: Trump's bogus claim of more votes in
Detroit than people
The info in the president's tweets was labeled by
Twitter as being disputed.
Nov. 18,
2020, 7:26 PM CET / Updated Nov. 18, 2020, 7:30 PM CET
By Jane C.
Timm
President
Donald Trump falsely claimed Wednesday that there were more votes than people
in Detroit.
"In
Detroit, there are FAR MORE VOTES THAN PEOPLE. Nothing can be done to cure that
giant scam. I win Michigan!" Trump tweeted, later alleging that in
Michigan, the number of votes was larger than the number of people who voted,
although it's not clear what the president was talking about.
There has
been no evidence of widespread fraud and NBC News has projected Joe Biden to be
the winner of Michigan.
Trump's
claim about Detroit is demonstrably false. There are 670,000 people living in
Detroit, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's most recent estimate, and the
city says that 250,138 ballots were cast there.
Both his
tweets about Detroit and Michigan have been flagged by Twitter as misleading.
The state's
largest county, Wayne, which includes Detroit, certified its election results
unanimously after an initial deadlocked vote along party lines Tuesday. State
canvassers plan to meet next week to certify the state's results.
On
Wednesday, the campaign announced that it would spend $3 million to pay for a
partial recount effort in Wisconsin, claiming without evidence that there was widespread
voter fraud and illegal election administration.
In
Pennsylvania, a federal judge said Wednesday that he was canceling an
evidentiary hearing scheduled for Thursday, signaling that he is likely to
dismiss the president's case, which brought former New York City Mayor Rudy
Giuliani back in federal court as an attorney Tuesday for the first time in
decades.
Broadly,
the president and his allies have yet to prove even one case of voter fraud in
court. So far, at least 16 suits have been denied, dismissed, settled or
withdrawn — half in the last five days.
Michigan
judges have particularly found fault in Trump and his allies' evidence in
similar suits.
Earlier
this month, a Michigan judge declared claims of widespread fraud alleged by a
nonprofit to be "mere speculation."
A second
judge rejected the Trump campaign's claims as moot and criticized its lawsuit
for a lack of evidence; the campaign had presented an affidavit of a poll
worker alleging what another poll worker had heard others say, something the
court called "hearsay within hearsay" and a Post-it note, which the
court said was "vague" and "likewise hearsay."
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