Elections: what they said and what the record shows
What right-wing public figures said about elections, set against what happened and the record. 175 entries: 113 predictions, 62 claims.
- “But now I want you to pretend I'm on the ballot, because if you go out and vote like you did in the presidentials, where we won by so much, by 18 or 19 points…”
- “I won Minnesota three times, but they didn't give me the Victories”
- “But we won Mississippi by 38 points.”
- “It actually started where he had a big lead, and there were about six or seven candidates, and he got 49.9. -- think of this, he got 49.9 percent of the vote.”
- “We won it, as you know, three times and we got the highest vote by far in the history of the state, all three times.”
- “I won all three times by the highest vote in the history of the state for any election. Three times.”
- “I won all three times, receiving more votes than any presidential or other candidate in Montana political history.”
- “They were broken purposely, and you couldn't vote. They wouldn't let you vote.”
- “She won that election.”
- “We have the highest vote in the history of Alaska for any race, three times.”
- “And I am very honored to have received more votes than any candidate in the history of politics for this great, the people of this state.”
- “We got the most votes ever in the state history all three times.”
- “And in 2024, we got more votes than any candidate in North Carolina history.”
- “You know, they don't have voting booths. Everything's by mail.”
- “We won the popular vote the first time too, by a lot, by millions, but they had me down a little bit in the popular vote.”
- “The SAVE America Act is so important. It's so good. It's voter ID. It's, you know, basic—it's your basics about a democracy: voter ID, birthplace. You have to…”
- “But we won all seven swing states by millions and millions of votes.”
- “I won Georgia three times, but they say twice, okay?”
- “They send out 38 million ballots, nobody knows where the hell they're going.”
- “We are now the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting. All others gave it up because of the MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD ENCOUNTERED.”
- “Also, won all of the Border Counties along Mexico, something which has never happened before.”
- “We won Alabama by 48 points.”
- “THANK YOU GOD! WON ALL SWING STATES, & THE POPULAR VOTE BY ALMOST 7 MILLION VOTERS.”
- “Where did those 20 million Democratic voters go? The truth is, they never existed. I think we can put the lie about Biden’s 80 million votes to rest once and…”
- “No judge looked at it. ... They said we didn't have standing. That's the other thing. They said we didn't have standing. A technicality.”
- “Mike Johnson's speakership is over. He needs to do the right thing, to resign and allow us to move forward in a controlled process. If he doesn't do so, he…”
- “It's going to be me … We've got New Hampshire, we've got South Carolina, we've got Super Tuesday, we're going to keep on going. And we're going to fight and…”
- “We are going to deliver a major surprise in Iowa. … Major surprise January 15th. … You are going to see a shock January 15th. Polls dead wrong. … I am going to…”
- “Well, we're going to win the caucus. … We're going to win Iowa. I think it's going to help propel us to the nomination”
- “I expect to be in this race through to the convention, Dana, and so, yes, absolutely.”
- “We got to make sure our streets are safe from crime and drugs, that's why I'm going to win tomorrow on November 7th.”
- “Jim Jordan will be America's Speaker for such a time as this … Jim Jordan will be we the people's Speaker for such a time as this.”
- “Yes, I'll survive. You know this is personal with Matt.”
- “No. He won't. They won't let him out there.”
- “I feel confident we will be in Milwaukee on Wednesday.”
- “Well, I'm very confident I'm going to make the debate stage. We now have 52,000 donors. We are 1% in a number of polls and I'm confident we will be on the…”
- “I feel very confident that we are going to make the debate stage, that we are going to meet the polling threshold.”
- “I LOVE Oklahoma & won 77 out of 77 Counties, something that never happened before.”
- “You only earn the position of speaker of the House if you can get the votes. Mr. McCarthy doesn't have the votes today. He will not have the votes tomorrow…”
- “You see that Kevin McCarthy does not have the votes. You are understanding that he is not going to get there. … we need to get to a point where we start…”
- “You always have a champion in me because I love y'all and we're going to win this election and get Georgia back together.”
- “Looking at what votes are outstanding, Kari Lake will take the lead sometime today and won't give it back. Kari Lake will be the next governor of Arizona.”
- “I say 53 seats in the Senate and if we get New Hampshire that's 54. And then I say Republicans hit 242 in the House.”
- “The president's spokesperson referenced Scranton, Pennsylvania. Jim [Bognet] is going to flip the House seat from Democrat to Republican because they don't…”
- “Lee will be the next governor of New York.”
- “Other upset is Zeldin. I think he is going to win over her by two or three points.”
- “Most importantly, I believe in you, the voters of Pennsylvania. They believe in me, which is why we're going to carry the day tomorrow.”
- “I'm excited about our chances. We're going to get across the finish line tomorrow night.”
- “The Republicans will take the House and the Senate. I think that's that simple. … The Republicans will take the House and end up with 230 seats. … Republicans…”
- “This generation is the most influential voting bloc in America today, so we have a lot of work to do if we want to win elections and save our country, and…”
- “With @JDVance1 tonight in Delaware County, OH - three days to go until we take back the Senate”
- “The numbers look great, and that's why we're campaigning in every county in this state to close out this race, and we're going to win on Tuesday night.”
- “Laxalt and Blake Masters are going to win in Nevada and Arizona.”
- “I'll say we'll win the House and the Senate and it's going to be a comfortable majority in both.”
- “That's why we have momentum, why we closed the gap, why we're going to win November 8th.”
- “We're going to take 52 [seats] plus. We're going to win, and we're going to keep all 21. Oz is going to win in Pennsylvania. We're going to win in Georgia…”
- “We're closing the gap and seeing the same red wave. We're excited and we will win this race in a few days and have the upset heard across the country.”
- “Rick Scott, McDaniel, RNC, everybody has come in to help us with the loss of that money and we have not missed a beat. So we are on it and we are going to win…”
- “I think we will get 25 pickups in the House. … I think we can be at 52 or 53 in the Senate. I think we're going to take the House.”
- “It is not going to work with one party rule in Albany. We are going to win this in 12 days.”
- “In two weeks, we're not just going to see a red wave, we're going to see a red tsunami.”
- “I'm going to win the election, and I will accept that result.”
- “I'm confident Hershel Walker will win in Georgia -- that is a Republican flip – that would be huge”
- “Adam Laxalt in Nevada has pretty much got it in the bag.”
- “I think we'll pick up between 25 and 70 seats in the House. We'll probably pick up about four seats in the Senate.”
- “He didn't win in Arizona. He lost in Arizona based on the forensic audit.”
- “Yes, I'm going to win this election. Yes.”
- “We got 75 million votes. We got 12 million votes more. No president in history has ever gotten anywhere close to 12 million more votes.”
- “If they're worried about people of color … statistics show that more people of color don't have cars than not.”
- “Donald Trump will be back in office in August.”
- “By impeaching Trump a second time, even while he has only a week left in office, the Democrats have pretty much ensured that impeachment will be used as a…”
- “Georgia alone had 66k votes cast by underage voters.”
- “I would like to point out that all the cases that have been thrown out have been thrown out on standing, not the evidence of voter fraud.”
- “The issue was magnified by the voter rolls being so inaccurate that more voters submitted ballots than there were registered voters.”
- “So in Pennsylvania, you had 205,000 more votes than you had voters. And the number is actually much greater than that now.”
- “Sixty-six thousand votes in Georgia were cast by individuals under the legal voting age.”
- “Today I will lay out just some of the evidence proving that we won this election and we won it by a landslide. This was not a close election.”
- “Despite that, despite that, we won Wisconsin.”
- “More than 8,000 votes were cast by individuals who had no address and probably didn't live there.”
- “There were also more than 42,000 double votes in Nevada.”
- “And 1,500 ballots were cast by individuals whose names and dates of birth match Nevada residents who died in 2020 prior to November 3 election.”
- “In Fulton County, Republican poll watchers were ejected, in some cases, physically from the room under the false pretense of a pipe burst.”
- “More than 4,500 illegal ballots were cast by individuals who do not appear on the state's own voter rolls.”
- “In Detroit, turnout was 139% of registered voters. Think of that. So you had 139% of the people in Detroit voting.”
- “In one Michigan county alone, 6,000 votes were switched from Trump to Biden, and the same systems are used in the majority of states in our country.”
- “Pennsylvania law says mail-in ballots require signature verification. Democrat secretary of state said: Nope. I am going to decide by myself that it doesn't…”
- “In the only audit done in Arizona, a court found 3 percent error rate against President Trump. … By the way, a 3 percent error rate at minimum is 90,000…”
- “And the real truth is I won by 400,000 votes. At least. That’s the real truth.”
- “She stuffed the machine. She stuffed the ballot — each ballot went three times they were showing: Here’s ballot No 1. Here it is second time, third time, next…”
- “They weren’t in an official voter box, but they were in what looked to be suitcases or trunks, suitcases but they weren’t in voter boxes. The minimum number it…”
- “So, dead people voted. And I think the--the number is close to 5,000 people. And they went to obituaries. They went to all sorts of methods to come up with an…”
- “They know I won--won by hundreds of thousands of votes. It wasn't close.”
- “68% error rate in Michigan Voting Machines. Should be, by law, a tiny percentage of one percent.”
- “Bear in mind, Dominion was invented by people working for Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan dictator after he, quote, "lost" an election. And he then decided to…”
- “Tape earlier in the day of Ruby Freeman and Shaye Freeman Moss and one other gentleman quite obviously surreptitiously passing around USB ports as if they are…”
- “The answer is yes.”
- “In Arizona, a sample of 100 ballots reviewed by a judge found that a very small percentage of these ballots -- very small, but when you look at it, it was…”
- “Every lie will be revealed and on January the 20th of 2021, Donald J. Trump will be sworn in as president of the United States of America.”
- “I still think that the president will get four more years in office. … I think it will be the next four years because this thing is far from over.”
- “Salcedo Show has been exploring and trying to sound the alarm bells for — for months now, about how our votes are tabulated outside the country.”
- “Joe Biden is in the lead because of the fraudulent ballots, the illegal ballots that were produced and that were allowed to be used after the election was…”
- “…he's on Mr. Biden's presidential transition team that's going to be nonexistent because we're fixing to overturn the results of the election in multiple states”
- “There is much to understand about Smartmatic, which owns Dominion Voting Systems.”
- “Dominion is a company that's owned by another company called Smartmatic … That's the company that owns Dominion.”
- “And by the way, the states, as you well know now, they have no ability to audit meaningfully the votes that are cast because the servers are somewhere else and…”
- “That is where the fraud took place, where they were flipping votes in the computer system or adding votes that did not exist.”
- “During the coming recount, we are confident we will find evidence of improperly harvested ballots and other irregularities that will prove that President Trump…”
- “Biden is relying on these states for his phony claim on the White House, but once the election is final, President Trump will be re-elected.”
- “Donald Trump won November 3rd [and] is going to be inaugurated on 20th of January 2021.”
- “For them to claim that Arizona won -- at the end of the day, the president will carry Arizona. He will win Pennsylvania, and that will be more than 270…”
- “First, I just want to say that Arizona's 11 electoral college votes are going to be in Donald Trump's column when we get done with this.”
- “We are going to win Pennsylvania.”
- “…here in Pennsylvania where I am, Sean, in Philadelphia, we see the president continuing to hold a massive insurmountable lead and that's why when they finish…”
- “We need to remedy this now. We won Pennsylvania. We want every vote to be counted in a fair way.”
- “We are declaring a victory in Pennsylvania. This is not based on gut or feel. This is based on math.”
- “I'm expecting a bigger win than 2016, and it's going to be a great day for this president.”
- “We believe this will be a landslide”
- “#china can see who the winner is going to be. And it isn’t Joe Biden”
- “The margins are going to be based on that Election Day turnout and Republicans will have a surge that day. We're going to- we're going to have that, and that's…”
- “We believe that we'll be over 290 electoral votes on election night. So no matter what they try to do, what kind of hijinks or law suits or whatever kind of…”
- “I said four years ago Donald Trump would win, I got laughed at… I'm going to say it again, mark my words, Donald Trump is going to still be president come…”
- “It is a development brought by a man who was not beholden to [the] swamp and that is what makes him different and that's why he's also going [to] win on…”
- “We encourage them to spend a lot of time and money in Georgia, because the president is going to win Georgia again.”
- “Bush beat Dukakis by 426-111 in an electoral landslide. Bush won 40 states. … That’s pretty close to what I predict is about to happen in this 2020 Trump-Biden…”
- “You know, I've said for a while I see the president winning with a minimum of high 270s, possibly up significantly based on how big this undercurrent is.”
- “Without question, Trump is going to win the election.”
- “President Trump will be reelected on his record of achievement, his historic accomplishments”
- “So we feel confident that with our strong ground game, with our enthusiasm and with the fact that President Trump and our Operation MAGA ... traveling across…”
- “I have predicted for the three years we're going to see 20 points in 2020”
- “Thanks Mike for joining us on the campaign trail. 46 more days til we reelect @realDonaldTrump!”
- “This is why Trump will win. Most Americans despise this depraved, intolerant conduct. Americans are seeing too much of this in streets across the country. They…”
- “This guy, he's not going to be the nominee, Juan, and you know it. He is going to be gone before November.”
- “My prediction, over 400 electoral votes for the president.”
- “Democrats will try to steal this—a preview of what they’ll do in November. Enough votes will be magically found to beat him.”
- “With Bernie Sanders suspending his campaign, it's all but official that the Democrat establishment got the candidate they wanted in Joe Biden, as well as the…”
- “So, while the Democratic primary process seems to be winding down and the establishment has succeeded in handpicking their party's nominee, the ultimate effect…”
- “Nancy Pelosi is the queen of the shell game. And this is going to be her last term as Speaker.”
- “So far everything we have seen out of the Democratic field does nothing but make every Republican in this country extremely happy, because it is clear that…”
- “We're gonna put pressure on these Democrats because we're going to take back the House, keep the Senate, reelect the president.”
- “Ignore what they're telling you on television. Joe Biden is not going to be president.”
- “Oh no, never. Nor should they.”
- “Fifty-five is the largest number of Republican Senators in the last 100 years.”
- “55 seats in the Senate…”
- “She has no idea whether it's Russia, China, or anybody else. ... And our country has no idea.”
- “Look, Sean, nobody's going to have the 1,237, as I think that's the number you need, and we're going to go to a convention.”
- “Let me tell you my solution to that. Donald is not going to be the GOP nominee. We're going to beat him.”
- “We're going to win Florida.”
- “Donald Trump is not going to get the nomination. I have enough confidence in the Republican primary voters in these early states and beyond, I'll trust them to…”
- “I am the only person in either campaign that's self-funding. I'm putting up 100 percent of my own money.”
- “Carol, he's not going to win the -- the nomination. ... He is not going to be the nominee. I'm going to support the Republican nominee. I'm going to be the…”
- “Romney will win because he earned it and President Obama loses for the same reason.”
- “And I think that's why he's going to win tonight, not just win, but win decisively. I don't think there's going to be any doubt at the end of tonight who the…”
- “This election is not going to be as close as the Democrats and their allies in the media would have us believe. … Prediction: 311 electoral votes for Romney…”
- “But my thoughts, my intellectual analysis of this — factoring everything I see plus the polling data — it's not even close. Three hundred-plus electoral votes…”
- “I think it's Romney. I think he's stealing in "like a thief with good tools," in Walker Percy's old words. While everyone is looking at the polls and the…”
- “I think Gov. Romney is going to win Florida, Virginia and Ohio. I think he's going to win New Hampshire, Colorado, maybe Iowa, probably Iowa, Wisconsin is…”
- “The QStarNews projection of the 2012 presidential race sees Mitt Romney being elected the next president of the United States with 50.67 percent of the popular…”
- “He will win Iowa, Wisconsin and Colorado. No question.”
- “Now as far as Governor Romney's chances are concerned, I believe wins in Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia all states Barack Obama took last time around…”
- “Electoral College Romney: 321 Obama: 217 Popular Vote Romney 49.7 Obama: 48.4”
- “Mitt Romney will win Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania will put him in the White House.”
- “I was with Paul yesterday here in Richmond. We're going to win this state, and I think we're going to win it a lot bigger than most people are predicting. Yes…”
- “Bottom line: Romney 315, Obama 223. That sounds high for Romney. But he could drop Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and still win the election.”
- “Romney will win this election by 5 to 10 points in the popular vote. And will carry more than 300 electoral votes.”
- “Let's call it 51%-48%, with Mr. Romney carrying at least 279 Electoral College votes, probably more.”
- “I think he's actually going to end up winning around 53-47. And I think it's very unlikely he can win a significant popular victory vote and not carry the…”
- “I am now predicting a 330 vote electoral landslide.”
- “We are going to win this race. Given that, we are going to win this race.”
- “If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.”
- “We will go to Alabama and Mississippi and win there and this race will turn around and we will go on and be the nominee.”
- “When the sun goes down on election day, Barack Obama will have America's gun owners to thank for his defeat.”
- “All I can tell you is what I'm seeing on the ground is remarkable and I think that I will be that nominee because the country needs a strong woman … that's why…”
- “I'm going to be the nominee.”
- “She is -- doing great she is going to win.”
- “This is a critical swing state, and with your help, we're going to win Pennsylvania in November.”