Other
2000
2000-11-07 George Bush lost the national popular vote to Al Gore, but he won because he secured 271 electoral votes to Gore’s 266.
https://www.factcheck.org/2008/03/presidents-winning-without-popular-vote/
2016
2016-01-23 Trump said, “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody, okay, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, okay?”.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-i-could-shoot-somebody-and-wouldnt-lose-any-voters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBRk90BKf_E
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/01/23/donald-trump-iowa-rally-shooting-sot.cnn
2020
2020-11-09 Trump’s former press secretary Kayleigh McEnany repeatedly pushed false claims of election fraud and told Fox she wanted all Pennsylvanian ballots thrown out. After a financial disclosure statement was released showing she funds from both Trump and TPUSA the Fox broadcast system put out a statement saying that she “is not currently an employee or contributor at FOX News”.
FRAUD CLAIMS
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/fox-news-cuts-away-kayleigh-224725658.html
OTHER SHADY BUSINESS
2021
2021-01-04 Democrats introduced the For The People/Freedom to Vote Act, but it was blocked by a filibuster in June. The bill included anti-gerrymandering provisions.
https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the-freedom-to-vote-act-unpacked/
2021-07-24 During The Future of American Political Economy conference in Alexandria Virginia JD Vance asserted that non-parents should not vote.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/jesse-watters-goes-rant-sexist-133356237.html
https://isi.org/j-d-vance-on-our-civilizational-crisis/
2021-09-14 Nancy Pelosi introduced the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act which would require states with a history of voting rights violations to seek federal approval before enacting changes to their voting laws.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis_Voting_Rights_Act
2022
2022-10-12 Charlie Kirk told his listeners to not support the rank-choice voting system. He also told his viewers that empathy is a “new age term” and does a “lot of damage”.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/fact-check-charlie-kirk-once-001900786.html
2024
2024-06-19 Trump falsely claimed Joan Rivers voted for him in 2016 despite her 2014 death.
https://people.com/donald-trump-claims-joan-rivers-voted-him-president-8667303
2024-07-26 At a Turning Point rally, Trump told supporters they would only need to vote “this one time” because the votes would be “fixed.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-admits-lost-2020-leading-192730313.html
2024-09-05 Vance claimed during a rally, “There is a logic to what the Democrats are trying to do. It’s disgusting, but there’s a logic to it. They want illegal aliens to steal everybody’s job, and now they want illegal aliens to steal everybody’s vote.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtRPLCso0Sw
2024-10-19 Musk hired people to canvas. Canvassers reported they had not been paid and were tricked into coming to Michigan by Blitz Canvassing. They also reported having to ride in the back of moving trucks.
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-america-pac-blitz-canvassing-michigan-uhaul/
2024-11-15 Republicans rejected a ballot measure to strip lawmakers from being able to manipulate electoral districts with partisan gerrymandering tactics.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/15/electoral-reform-ballot-measures
2025
2025-01-29 During a presidential rally at the Capital One Arena in Washington DC, Trump stated “…but then they rigged the election, and now we won, so I’m gonna be your president for the Olympics…”
2025-09-03 Allegedly Trump offered Eric Adams a job to drop his candidacy so they could leave Cuomo more opportunity to defeat Momdani, but Adams later denied this claim.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/03/eric-adams-trump-new-york-mayor
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/trump-administration-eric-adams-job-to-leave-nyc-mayors-race/
PAY WALL https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/nyregion/trump-adams-sliwa-quit-nyc-mayor.html
2025-09-03 Republicans proposed a “nuclear option” to speed up confirmation on multiple Trump nominees, so they don’t have to go through the standard voting system. This way they could appoint their nominees all at once.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/03/senate-nominees-rules-change-00542580
2025-09-11 Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years for a coup after his party formally claimed, without evidence, that government employees altered 2022 election ballots. Trump defended him, calling him a “good man”.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/29/world/americas/election-bolsonaro-brazil-fraud.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xrqxk9p4xo
2025-09-27 Teachers in Oklahoma pointed out that Trump bibles include the Constitution but leaves out Amendments 11 through 27. Those Amendments include protections for states from being sued in federal court, MULTIPLE voting rights, two term limits, presidential succession, citizenship laws, equal right laws, abolition of slavery, women’s rights, and more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZHGkBxvVnk
2025-12-19 Erika Trump endorsed JD Vance for 2028.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp84p722m3do
2026 January
2026-01-15 Trump said, “We shouldn’t even have an election”. Karoline Leavitt claimed Trump was “just joking”.
https://time.com/7346834/trump-canceling-midterm-elections-joking-white-house/
2026 March
2026-03-23 Steve Bannon described ICE deployments at airports as a potential “test run” for future election-related operations. He allegedly stated, “We can use this as a test run, as a test case, to really perfect ICE’s involvement in the 2026 midterms”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-8SGdG5AVY
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aeeULQ384v4
2026 June
2026-06-23 Elissa Slotkin introduced legislation to prevent troops from poll intimidation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWdgscirvUk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLgCiTHWFG8&list=WL&index=4
https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/protect-our-polls-act-armed-military-polling-places/
2026 July
2026-07-07 FEMA announced it would be withholding Homeland Security funding to any states that didn’t comply with Trump’s upcoming election requirements.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/fema-threatens-to-withhold-terrorism-prevention-funds/
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dhs-plans-costly-crackdown-states-dont-cooperate-election-security
2026-07-12 Lindsey Graham died at 71. Trump gave Graham a life score of 99% during an interview, saying he’d dock points for criticism of J6, then claimed Graham’s death was a huge blow to the SAVE Act. Trump said, “He was a worker; he was really a worker. But he sounded great, actually, but he actually said he was tired. But he wanted to pass the SAVE America Act, and I said, ‘We’re going to get it done, Lindsey, we’re going to get it done, I’ll see you, like soon. We might even meet today.’”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6YI10hqVFI&list=WL&index=3&t=135s
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6400948165112
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senator-lindsey-graham-dies-after-brief-and-sudden-illness/
https://people.com/trump-rates-lindsey-graham-99-9-out-of-100-12016958
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5964574-trump-graham-save-america-act/
[https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-phone-call-lindsey-graham-death-save-act-rcna552732])https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-phone-call-lindsey-graham-death-save-act-rcna552732
2026-07-21 New Jersey Governor said more than 6600 non-citizens were accidentally registered to vote after a software glitch. Fewer than 400 actually ended up voting.
2026-07-24 Iowa Democrats lost their first-in-the-nation caucus status after 54 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14LfUpg9BnE&list=WL&index=5
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/iowa-dems-lose-first-caucus-021712976.html
2026-07-24 The Trump administration conceded that it cancelled 284 research grants on states that voted against Trump in 2024.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/25/politics/trump-administration-grants-democratic-states