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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Ahmed Baba

Voices: Republicans are already spreading lies about the midterm election results

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At the time of this writing, most midterm races that could tip the balance of power are too early to call. Some races could take days for votes to be counted. But it’s never too early to call out election disinformation. And sadly, we’re seeing a lot of that already.

A couple of weeks ago, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) began running the GOP’s 2020 election denial playbook. Cruz tweeted: “Why is it only Democrat blue cities that take “days” to count their votes? The rest of the country manages to get it done on election night.” Of course, this is not true, but more on that later.

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