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Donald Trump said he won all of Texas’ border counties. He didn’t.
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Throughout former President Donald Trump’s announcement on Tuesday night to once more run for the nation’s highest workplace, he falsely claimed that each group alongside Texas’ southern border supported him in his final bid for presidency in 2020.
Trump added that Gov. Greg Abbott known as him to congratulate him for his success alongside the Texas-Mexico border, although the previous president didn’t really obtain the help of all the border communities.
In neither 2020 nor 2016 did Trump win all of the southern border counties in Texas. Nearly all of residents in seven of the 14 counties in Texas that contact the southern border voted for President Joe Biden in 2020. In 2016, 9 of these 14 counties went for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
In recounting the decision between himself and the Texas governor, Trump mentioned that Abbott instructed him, “You’ve finished one thing that no person else has finished. You’ve gained each single space alongside the border — it’s the longest since Reconstruction.”
Abbott’s workplace didn’t instantly return a request for remark concerning the alleged name between him and Trump or his help for the previous president.
Amongst different false claims, Trump mentioned he gained probably the most votes within the 2020 election. Biden gained over 7 million extra votes than Trump, who tried to overthrow the outcomes of the 2020 election by inspiring a lethal riot on the Capitol. He’s at present the topic of a number of investigations.