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A social media user chronicled her mother’s early voting complication on Facebook.  “My Mom voted early,” the user wrote in an Oct. 29 post. “This is what happened to her!” The poster said that a voting machine in Galesburg, Illinois, at the Knox County Courthouse flipped her mom’s vote.  “When I cast my vote for […]

Confused about the most reliable sources to track as the election returns roll in the evening of Nov. 5? We’re here to help. News websites with results and analysis The best and most unbiased information will come from traditional media sources. The major broadcast and cable networks will have their own “decision desks” that sort […]

PolitiFact is fact-checking the days following Election Day 2024. Follow along here for our latest updates, fact-checks and stories. Learn how PolitiFact is covering Election 2024. See Figure 1 on PolitiFact.com

Vice President Kamala Harris appeared on “Saturday Night Live” for only 90 seconds, but her cameo sparked hours of online debate over whether NBC had to offer former President Donald Trump “equal time.” Unlike many aspects of the 2024 presidential campaign, all sides worked together to address the issue quickly — and to the parties’ […]

Millions of immigrants are coming to the U.S. from foreign prisons and mental institutions. Immigrants are raising U.S. crime rates. Immigrants are ruining Social Security. Noncitizens are illegally voting in federal elections. Immigrants are taking U.S. jobs.  That is just a sampling of the false and misleading immigration claims former President Donald Trump has repeated […]

Republicans are accusing U.S. Rep. Jeff Jackson, the Democratic nominee for North Carolina attorney general, of embracing and praising a child sex offender. Jackson and Republican U.S. Rep. Dan Bishop are in a tight race for attorney general, a position currently held by Democrat Josh Stein, who’s running for governor. Bishop’s campaign is airing a […]

On election night 2020, then-President Donald Trump prematurely declared hours after polls had closed, “We already have won.” He hadn’t, and we rated that Pants on Fire. When Trump began to speak in the early morning of Nov. 4, at 2:21 a.m. ET, states were still following normal procedures to count ballots. It was not […]

In the week before Election Day, former President Donald Trump repeatedly told his supporters that voter fraud and cheating is happening in Pennsylvania. “Pennsylvania is cheating, and getting caught, at large scale levels rarely seen before,” Trump posted Oct. 30 on Truth Social. “REPORT CHEATING TO AUTHORITIES. Law Enforcement must act, NOW!” Law enforcement officials […]

In his last scheduled visit to the battleground state of Wisconsin, former President Donald Trump held a rally at Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum, the venue where he accepted the Republican presidential nomination in July.   The Nov. 1 rally, which ran more than an hour and 40 minutes, featured repeated attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris (saying […]

A conservative group supporting former President Donald Trump spent $350,000 on Facebook and Instagram ads in the final days before the election to sway voters in battleground states away from Vice President Kamala Harris. You wouldn’t know it from looking at them; the ads from “Progress 2028” look as if they are supporting her.  The […]

¿Están llegando miles de personas ilegalmente a Estados Unidos para votar en las elecciones presidenciales? Si has pasado tiempo en Instagram, Facebook, X o TikTok, quizás has visto publicaciones diciendo que habrá fraude electoral este año electoral debido a la inmigración durante la presidencia de Joe Biden. Ciertas publicaciones van más lejos, diciendo que los […]

Former President Donald Trump called former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney a “radical war hawk” and said she should see how it feels to face guns “trained on her face.” Trump made the comments to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson at an Oct. 31 campaign event in Glendale, Arizona. Carlson asked Trump whether it was […]