“Some state legislators ... want the ability to reject the final count and ignore the will of the people if their preferred candidate loses.”
Joe Biden
president. a speech in Philadelphia. Claim dated 13 Jul 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisPowers are largely speculative
What PolitiFact found
Biden's claim about legislators wanting to be able to overturn the voters' will wasn’t as clear cut as he made it sound.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 13 July 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 14 July 2021, 1 day later. Its rating was “Powers are largely speculative”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- c-span.orghttps://www.c-span.org/video/?513361-1/president-biden-defends-integrity-2020-election-re…
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