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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Peter Stone in Washington

Alarm grows over Trump and Musk’s blizzard of baseless voter-fraud claims

Elon Musk at a Trump campaign event in Pennsylvania in October.
Elon Musk at a Trump campaign event in Pennsylvania in October. Photograph: Matt Rourke/AP

Donald Trump and top allies such as the multibillionaire Elon Musk have created a blizzard of false voting misinformation portraying Democrats as bent on stealing the election, undermining trust in the voting process and leading to potential violence, voting experts and ex-federal prosecutors say.

To sow doubt about the integrity of the election and reprising his 2020 playbook of claiming that Democrats were trying to steal the election before he lost to Joe Biden and cried fraud, Trump has flatly and without evidence declared that Democrats are a “bunch of cheats”.

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