CNN’s Daniel Dale Drops Blistering Fact-Check On Trump DURING Victory Speech: ‘His OWN Campaign Couldn’t Find Shred of Evidence’

CNN correspondent Daniel Dale dropped a blistering fact-check on former President Donald Trump’s New Hampshire victory speech — while Trump was still speaking to supporters.

Jake Tapper anchored CNN’s coverage of the New Hampshire primary, which was over barely more than an hour after polls closed. Trump was declared the victor with what figures to be a convincing if not massive, high single-digit or low double-digit margin. He delivered what Tapper described as an “angry” victory speech in which he lashed out at ex-Amb. Nikki Haley and others.

After CNN dumped out of Trump’s speech several minutes in, Tapper brought in Dale to knock down Trump’s claims while Trump’s speech was still going on:

TAPPER: I want to bring in — he was the corner-man for Ali. He came up with, float like a butterfly sting like a bee.

Anyway, moving on. Let’s bring in Daniel Dale, because I heard at least two or three things that need fact-checking.

Daniel Dale, obviously to start with the obvious. Donald Trump did not win in 2020. He lost that election. And that’s been adjudicated over and over again. Although to the crowd he was speaking to, they believe it, even though it’s a lie.

DANIEL DALE: It’s a lie. We’ve gone it over and over, as you said.

He also made a more specific false claim about elections. He said he’s always won New Hampshire, not only in primaries, which he has, but in every general election. That’s wrong too, Jake. He lost New Hampshire, in the 20 — in the 2016 general election, to Democrat Hillary Clinton. Lost it again in the 2020 general election to Joe Biden. So, completely untrue.

He also claimed, Jake, something he’s been saying in the lead up to this primary. That is that Democrats were able to vote.

In fact, only registered Republicans and people registered as undeclared, so, New Hampshire Independents were permitted to cast ballots, in the Republican primary. The deadline to switch your affiliation was more than three months ago, in early October. So no, Democrats, registered Democrats, were not voting in this election.

And one more thing, Jake. I heard him say that people are flooding in from mental institutions, across the border.

I asked Trump campaign for evidence of this claim, which he says at pretty much every rally. Find me some source, some anything to suggest that foreign countries are emptying their mental institutions, as he’s claiming, to send people across the border as migrants. His own campaign could not find a single shred of evidence.

TAPPER: All right, Daniel Dale, if we’d run the whole speech, maybe you would have had more to do. But I appreciate your yeoman’s work.

DALE: I’m sure I would have.

TAPPER: And I hope you’re back from paternity leave, and ready to get to work, because we’re going to have a lot to fact-check, in 2024.

Watch above via CNN’s coverage of the New Hampshire primary.