Trump breaks down at Truth Social after reports of massive voter turnout in battleground states

Election officials in battleground states say voter turnout is surging in one of the closest presidential elections in a generation. Despite the huge turnout, swing state officials say there is no evidence of significant fraud or fraud.

“The only talk of massive fraud came from one of the candidates, Donald J. Trump,” Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said Tuesday. Reports from the City of Brotherly Love indicate record-breaking voter turnout. Donald Trump, for his part, targeted the area in a Truth Social meltdown on Tuesday.

“There is a lot of talk about massive FRAUD in Philadelphia. Law enforcement is coming!!!” Trump wrote on his social media page.

“There is no factual basis within law enforcement to support these wild claims. We invited complaints and allegations of improprieties throughout the day. If Donald J. Trump has any facts to back up his wild claims, we want them now. Right now. We.” “We’re not holding our breath,” Krasner defended himself against the former president.

While Election Day crowds have eased in some states like Michigan, where early voting has broken records, in other places lines of voters have been seen snaking out of polling stations before they even open. According to Michigan’s voter dashboard, since Oct. 26, 1,214,449 people have cast their votes early in person, while 2,106,337 have cast their absentee ballots by mail. “Michigan citizens voted overwhelmingly to give themselves the right to vote early in person at least nine days before a statewide election,” said Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, after cheerfully announcing that Michigan residents were voting in “record numbers.” choose. ABC 7 Local News reported that an early voting center in Romulus, Michigan, had run out of “I Voted” stickers.

While Georgia also smashed early voting numbers, poll workers report that election day turnout is high, with some lines starting immediately when polls open at 7 a.m

“We started with about 100 people. It took about an hour and a half for us to slow down,” Wes Daniel, the district leader at Chicopee Baptist Church near Gainesville, told WDUN. “We’re at 316 at noon, so we’re surpassing anything this district has ever seen.”

In Pennsylvania, lines of a hundred or more people formed before polls opened, as shown by videos on social media showing what appeared to be a huge voter turnout on Election Day. However, unlike Michigan and Georgia, slightly fewer people (two million) voted early than in 2020.

This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, election officials encouraged people to vote early, but the effect was not uniform – Republicans and Donald Trump’s campaign falsely claimed that early mail voting was a Democratic plan to commit mass voter fraud and pushed then supporters to vote in person. While rampant disease no longer poses a barrier to voting on Election Day and Republicans continue to spread stories of fraud, the latter have largely abandoned rhetoric linking them to a particular voting method and are even urging their supporters to vote early. As a result, some states like Nevada saw an increase in registered Republicans mailing in their ballots.

Veteran Nevada political reporter Jon Ralston reported on Election Day morning that nearly 1.1 million Nevadans had voted early, with registered Republicans outnumbering Democrats by 41,800 votes, or 3.9 percent. Vice President Kamala Harris needs to decisively break with independents, he said, predicting the Democratic nominee would do just enough to win the state by 0.3 points. As of 10 a.m. Pacific Time, he announced that 57,000 people voted in the Silver State on Election Day.

Early voting is more encouraging for Democrats in Pennsylvania, where registered Democrats have a two-to-one advantage in mail-in ballots returned, although the number of ballot requests from Republicans has increased by 100,000 since 2020. Since 2020, the number of Republican ballot requests has increased by 100,000 Prognosis provides whether voters will choose a candidate from another party or how the independents could split. In general, however, it can be a good indicator of the enthusiasm a candidate receives from their own base, particularly at the top of the list.

Another good sign for Harris and the Democrats is that in an election where polls point to a widening gender gap, women are outnumbering men in early voting, with women in recent cycles typically voted for Democratic candidates by a margin of 10 to 15 points. According to the Georgia Secretary of State’s Election Data Hub, 53.3% of early voting ballots were submitted by women, compared to 46.5% by men. In North Carolina, where Trump hopes to maintain a string of narrow Republican Party victories since 2012, women outnumber men in early voting, 51.7 percent to 41.2 percent.

In the run-up to the election and on Election Day itself, state and federal officials fended off attempts by foreign hackers, GOP activists and others to sow doubt and confusion in the voting process. So far, these attempts do not appear to have had a significant impact on people’s motivation to vote.