Pants On Fire for viral rumor Bernie Sanders won California

[brooklynite]

PolitiFact:

After early California primary results showed a big Clinton lead over Sanders, the Justice Gazette posted the headline on June 7: "Bernie Sanders Wins California But ⅔ of his Votes Aren’t Counted."

Three days later, Clinton continues to lead Sanders by about 450,000. There are more than two million uncounted votes. But based on polling shortly before the race, showing Sanders even or slightly ahead with voters who had yet to cast ballots, professional pollsters and news outlets say Clinton’s lead could shrink somewhat but is not in danger. Sanders would have to win the remaining votes by a huge margin, something no polls showed in advance of Election Day.

There is evidence that California’s complicated voting rules led to problems. That may have prevented some Sanders supporters from voting for him and, for that matter, some Clinton supporters from voting for her. But there’s no proof to back up the outlandish claim that Sanders won California or that two-thirds of his votes were not counted.

We rate the Gazette’s claim Pants On Fire.

"No one’s questioning the fundamental integrity of the election," Ben Tulchin, Sanders’ national pollster, told PolitiFact California, in an interview on June 10, 2016.

[Henhouse]

1. K&R....nt

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Per Rachel Maddow, re: Politi"fact":

[Adrahil]

4. EVERYBODY in California really voted for Bernie!!!

True story. Trust me.

[Cooley Hurd]

5. Nonsense...

Thanks for playing and support your candidate in a way that makes her more favorable to independents and Senator Sanders supporters.

Nonsensical post...

[msongs]

3. yes its true hillary got NO votes at all in CA, I can prove it...because I said so nt

[libdem4life]

6. Perhaps if you hop down from your high horse and re-read the last

guote...you'd understand. Of course I've never heard of Justice Gazette, so can't call it RW or purified Democrat.

A Viral Rumor...rumor quoting now, too?

A quote of a quote from who knows...but hey, go for it. Surely somebody said something like that.

The last one was a true first hand, named quote. Said it all, less your hype.

Getting pretty desperate here.

[Surya Gayatri]

7. Massive K & R for the dose of reality...

[ucrdem]

8. "JusticeGazette.org" is basically a website. Not an actual journal.

In other words, campaign literature of the less-than-up-and-up variety:

http://justicegazette.org/bernie-defrauded-in-ca.html

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