‘They Are Fighting So Hard to Steal This Damn Thing!’ Trump Rages at PA Rally, Repeats Debunked Claim About 2,600 Fraudulent Votes

Former President Donald Trump repeated a debunked claim that massive voter fraud was underway in one Pennsylvania County on Sunday as he campaigned in the battleground state just two days before the election.

Trump told a crowd in Lititz that 2,600 ballots in Lancaster County had been signed by the same person in an effort to cheat him out of a win in the commonwealth.

The 2024 Republican nominee had made the claim last week but again told his supporters that his opponents were rigging the election:

Everything we’ve been fighting for so hard to achieve for the past nine years all comes down to the next two days. Think of it. We’ve worked in this for nine years, and we got a phony press. We got a lot of crooked people out there.

We’re fighting like a son of a gun, and we’re fighting. They want to, they want to – they are fighting so hard to steal this damn thing. Look at what’s going on and look at what’s going on in your state every day. They’re talking about extending hours. What? Whoever heard of this stuff? We should have one-day voting and paper ballots.

Minutes later, Trump repeated his Lancaster County ballot claim, which he first made last week and which was quickly debunked by state election officials.

Trump said:

I love Pennsylvania. I went to school here. I think the people are incredible. But they found, as I understand it, I mean, I don’t know what’s happened in the last day or so, but they in Lancaster, they found 2,600 ballots all done in by the same hand. In other words, the same exact penmanship, the same hand, the same everything.

It was all done by the same pen. The exact same pen. And then they go and they say, well, there’s this is a conspiracy theorist. It’s a terrible thing that’s happened to our country and the whole world watches it, even third-world countries.

As Axios reported of Trump’s ballot claims:

In fact, the opposite was true, Lancaster officials and law enforcement said: It was election workers who identified about 2,500 suspicious voting applications — not ballots — and the county was investigating them.

Their election security system had worked, experts said. In York County, Pa., officials said they were reviewing about 3,000 voter registration applications. That led Trump to say the county had received “thousands of potentially fraudulent” materials.

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