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Elections & voting fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about elections & voting. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

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PolitiFactElections & voting

The 2020 election “was stolen from Donald J. Trump.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

Research from related reporting directly discusses the claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump. One report describes Trump repeating that claim and says it was debunked, while another calls it his recurring election falsehood. The excerpts, however, do not show the underlying checks of vote counts, court records, or other evidence that would establish how the claim was evaluated. A later report about a video Trump shared in February 2026 describes allegations in that video about a Michigan voting tabulator and says the video revisited the stolen-election conspiracy theory. That account documents what the video alleged, not evidence that the 2020 result was stolen. The supplied research therefore establishes that the reporting addresses the same underlying claim, but does not provide enough of the original fact-check’s evidence or methods to reconstruct its full case.