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Demovictory9

(32,454 posts)
Tue Oct 1, 2019, 07:46 PM Oct 2019

Fact checking Trump's 'Impeach this' map

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The Trumps seemingly did not produce this map themselves -- it appears it was published in 2016 on HuffPost, a website usually critical of the President. But it is not correct.

Facts First: The map the Trumps tweeted inaccurately displays multiple blue counties won by Hillary Clinton as red counties won by Trump.

The Clinton-won counties the map wrongly shows as Trump-won counties include Orange County, California; Washoe County, Nevada;
Lake County, Minnesota; Gallatin County, Montana; and Whitman County, Washington.


It was also not the first time Trump has displayed an inaccurate county-by-county election map; he also displayed one in early 2018. And it was far from the first time that Trump has tweeted information from others without verifying it himself.

As numerous analysts have pointed out when Trump has previously touted county-level maps, such maps provide incomplete information. Specifically, they do not distinguish between a county with millions of residents and a county with a few thousand. Clinton earned about 3 million more votes than Trump even though he won far more counties.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/01/politics/trump-impeach-this-map-fact-check/index.html
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Fact checking Trump's 'Impeach this' map (Original Post) Demovictory9 Oct 2019 OP
The tRumps have reverted to their 18th century form that says only landowners can vote Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2019 #1
Try to impeach this... map of the United States? EarlG Oct 2019 #2

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,001 posts)
1. The tRumps have reverted to their 18th century form that says only landowners can vote
Tue Oct 1, 2019, 08:01 PM
Oct 2019

... and they get votes in proportion to their property, be it slaves or land.

EarlG

(21,947 posts)
2. Try to impeach this... map of the United States?
Tue Oct 1, 2019, 08:03 PM
Oct 2019

Somehow I don’t think Trump is going to be able to meme his way out of this.

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