(via False Claim About Biden’s Win Probability
Facebook posts have repeated a false claim about a “one in a quadrillion” chance that President-elect Joe Biden received more votes than President Donald Trump in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Experts told us the claim misuses a questionable statistical analysis that made implausible assumptions about the 2020 election .
Sen. Elizabeth Warren said, “We are right now at … 25,000 new infections a day and 2,000 deaths a day.” White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany called those “some funny numbers.” The disparity is largely a matter of semantics. We review the trends.
In her first press briefing, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany repeated a false talking point that the Russia investigation ended in “the complete and total exoneration of President Trump.” Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report pointedly said that the investigation “does not exonerate him.”
