“This election actually was not unusually close.”
What PolitiFact found
By most metrics — including electoral votes, the popular vote margin, the percentage of the vote he won, and the margins in the seven closest states — Biden did put up impressive numbers compared with recent candidates.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Mitch McConnell (Senate Majority Leader) made this claim around 6 January 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 8 January 2021, 2 days later. Its rating was “True”.
Mitch McConnell has 10 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 4 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
Where the claim appeared
- newsweek.comhttps://www.newsweek.com/full-text-mitch-mcconnells-speech-before-most-important-vote-his…
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