Regardless of the overwhelming scale of former president Donald Trump’s victory within the Iowa caucuses on Monday night time, 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 p.c of the vote in Iowa, with Florida governor Ron DeSantis a distant second at 21 p.c and former UN ambassador Nikki Haley in third place at 19 p.c, based on outcomes shared by the Iowa Republican Occasion and AP’s election tracker.
“We’d like a recount in Johnson County RIGHT NOW!” an X account named Pink Eagle Politics wrote.
On Trump’s personal platform Reality Social, Seth Keshel, a retired US military captain who has turn 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 in opposition to Trump, however offered no proof to again up this declare.
On pro-Trump message board The Donald, the place a variety of the net organizing of the January 6 riot passed off, customers took problem with Haley’s Monday night time 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 like a ‘Fuck You’ from the Deep State.” Responses in the identical thread urged Trump to name for a recount with a view to “set off” his opponents.
Some Trump supporters additionally claimed that tens of hundreds of Democrats had been being paid to change allegiances for the caucus and vote for Haley.
“The Iowa Democratic occasion has reportedly pushed for and paid TENS OF THOUSANDS of its registered voters to quickly change their occasion 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 no less than some Johnson County precincts, election officers ran out of varieties printed to permit folks to change occasion affiliations on the night time.
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 night time offered any proof to again up their claims. With an extended main season now underway, these peddling lies about election integrity are simply getting began.
