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El Detector / Univision NoticiasElections & voting

Joe Biden admitió que los demócratas robaron las últimas elecciones presidenciales porque se le escucha decir en un video que se asegurarán de que “nadie vuelva a tener la oportunidad de robar unas elecciones otra vez”.

Publisher’s rating: Engañoso

The claim concerns a 36-second video in which Joe Biden says that “nobody” should again have the opportunity to steal an election. The review identifies that clip as an excerpt from Biden’s August 25, 2022, speech at Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville, Maryland, where he was urging supporters to vote in the November midterm elections—not acknowledging that Democrats had stolen the 2020 presidential election. The review says it searched the quoted English phrase and found the full speech on the White House website, then compared the clip with the speech and event video. In the surrounding remarks, Biden said that if Democrats elected two more senators and kept the House, they could pursue policies including protecting voting rights. He then said they would pass electoral reform and ensure nobody could again steal an election. The review explains that this referred to the proposed Freedom to Vote Act, which it describes as seeking to expand and facilitate voting access, increase transparency in campaign financing, and prevent rules that exclude minority voters. It reports that the Senate had rejected the legislation in January 2022. The review also quotes White House press adviser Andrew Bates describing Biden’s remark as referring to the attempt to overturn the 2020 election result. It notes that Trump’s claims that the election was rigged had been rejected by courts, while Biden and Democrats characterized the effort to deny the result as the “big lie.” In context, the quoted line is about preventing election subversion through electoral reform; the review finds it does not support the claim that Biden admitted Democrats stole the election.