CNN has found an issue it cares about twenty percent of mail-in votes are not fraudulent, no matter how many people named Trump say they are.
On his miniature social network, adjudicated rapist Donald Trump credited Russian stooge Tucker Carlson for sourcing a wildly false statistic that Trump likes. Carlson interviewed Justin Haskins of the "Heartland Institute," who gave the unsubstantiated number, and we're off. CNN's Cooper had to press former Republican Congressperson Scott Taylor about the claim, and Kasie Hunt had to tackle Lara Trump's repetition of the lie. Lara backpedaled and admitted she had seen no data.
The study Haskins referenced was debunked by the Washington Post in December, when analyst Philip Bump explained a problem with conservative pollster Ramussen's survey of roughly 1,000 voters upon which it relied.
"This instantly fails the smell test," wrote Bump. "A fifth of voters said they voted in a state where they no longer live? About 6 in 10 Americans have never moved out of the states in which they were born. Half of the rest, we are meant to believe, committed an obvious form of election fraud three years ago."
On Tuesday, Lara Trump tried to pivot away from Trump's misleading messaging to her own political talking points.
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