Regardless of the overwhelming scale of former president Donald Trump’s victory within the Iowa caucuses on Monday evening, a few of Trump’s most ardent supporters have already claimed that the vote was rigged as a result of he misplaced one single county.
“After it was reported that President Trump gained each county in Iowa tonight, Democrat shenanigans ensued and now it’s being reported that Johnson County in Iowa, which is a Biden +40 county, flipped to Nikki Haley by ONE VOTE,” Laura Loomer, a far-right activist who has been embraced by Trump, posted on X within the early hours of Tuesday morning.
Different Trump supporters on far-right on-line platforms additionally claimed electoral conspiracies, though Trump gained 51 % of the vote in Iowa, with Florida governor Ron DeSantis a distant second at 21 % and former UN ambassador Nikki Haley in third place at 19 %, in accordance with outcomes shared by the Iowa Republican Social gathering and AP’s election tracker.
“We’d like a recount in Johnson County RIGHT NOW!” an X account named Purple Eagle Politics wrote.
On Trump’s personal platform Fact Social, Seth Keshel, a retired US military captain who has develop into a number one voice within the election denial motion in recent times, wrote: “Haley by one vote in Johnson County screws my prediction of 99/99 to Trump. Audit!”
A few of Keshel’s followers claimed those that voted for Haley had been “paid” to vote towards Trump, however supplied no proof to again up this declare.
On pro-Trump message board The Donald, the place a whole lot of the web organizing of the January 6 riot occurred, customers took subject with Haley’s Monday evening declare that Iowa voters made the presidential election a “two-person race.”
“They rigged that county by a single vote simply so she might say this,” one consumer wrote.
Others mentioned the one vote loss was the work of the so-called deep state. “To win by ONE vote is simply too conspicuous,” a consumer wrote. “It seems to be like a ‘Fuck You’ from the Deep State.” Responses in the identical thread urged Trump to name for a recount as a way to “set off” his opponents.
Some Trump supporters additionally claimed that tens of 1000’s of Democrats have been being paid to modify allegiances for the caucus and vote for Haley.
“The Iowa Democratic social gathering has reportedly pushed for and paid TENS OF THOUSANDS of its registered voters to briefly swap their social gathering registration from Democrat to Republican to allow them to caucus for Nikki Haley,” Joshua Corridor, who was as soon as convicted of threatening to kill Democratic congressperson Eric Swalwell, posted on X.
Whereas there was no proof anybody was paid to vote, CBS reported that in not less than some Johnson County precincts, election officers ran out of kinds printed to permit folks to modify social gathering affiliations on the evening.
As has been the case for the reason that first false claims of a stolen election emerged within the wake of Trump’s loss in 2020, none of these claiming wrongdoing on Monday evening supplied any proof to again up their claims. With a protracted major season now underway, these peddling lies about election integrity are simply getting began.