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Trump’s own research showed that voter fraud did not cost him election – report

Donald Trump on the phone.
Donald Trump insisted that thousands of ballots came from dead people on a phone call with the Georgia secretary of state in January 2021. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

The Donald Trump election campaign’s efforts to show that thousands of ballots were cast in the name of dead people in the pivotal state of Georgia during the 2020 election resulted in a research report that in fact contradicted Trump’s claims that widespread election fraud cost him the presidency, according to a report on Friday.

Joe Biden’s victory in Georgia in 2020 was key and the Trump team’s own information went against Trump’s subsequent denial of the legitimate win by his opponent, according to the Washington Post.

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