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"We lost the state of Michigan because everybody from Republicans to Russians were targeting the suppression of African American voters," Booker said, lying through his plastic pop-on teeth, during the Democratic debate on Wednesday. The Post said that this claim is supported by zero evidence, but Booker feels strongly that it's true and that's what he has--feelings, nothing more than feelings
"Election experts say they see little or no evidence that the activities by the Russians and the Trump campaign actually swayed the election in Michigan," Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler writes.
Kessler notes that Russian propaganda efforts did make an effort to discourage African-American voters, but didn't appear to have much effect, and had nothing to do with President Trump, as stated clearly in the Mueller report, which, like the 2016 election, Democrats don't want to believe.
"There were Russian-linked Facebook ads that targeted African American voters and voiced opposition to Clinton, but there is not strong evidence that they influenced many voters," Matt Grossman, director of the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research at Michigan State University, told the left-leaning Post. "African American turnout in Michigan was down from 2012 to 2016, partially because it had previously risen for Barack Obama. Clinton also received a lower share of the African American vote than Obama."
Kessler also couldn't find any election laws that passed Michigan's Republican legislature between 2012 and 2016 targeting African-American turnout. "The most likely explanation for the loss was that Hillary Clinton, not Barack Obama, was on the ballot, so turnout by African American voters returned to pre-Obama levels," he concludes, leaving out the part where she sucks as a candidate.
Hillary Clinton also received four pinocchios from the Post for her claims of voter suppression in Georgia and Wisconsin. President Trump won Michigan by the closest margin of any state in his 2016 presidential election victory, winning by fewer than 11,000 votes, proving Lincoln's words about not fooling all of the people all of the time.
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Kessler notes that Russian propaganda efforts did make an effort to discourage African-American voters, but didn't appear to have much effect, and had nothing to do with President Trump, as stated clearly in the Mueller report, which, like the 2016 election, Democrats don't want to believe.
"There were Russian-linked Facebook ads that targeted African American voters and voiced opposition to Clinton, but there is not strong evidence that they influenced many voters," Matt Grossman, director of the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research at Michigan State University, told the left-leaning Post. "African American turnout in Michigan was down from 2012 to 2016, partially because it had previously risen for Barack Obama. Clinton also received a lower share of the African American vote than Obama."
Kessler also couldn't find any election laws that passed Michigan's Republican legislature between 2012 and 2016 targeting African-American turnout. "The most likely explanation for the loss was that Hillary Clinton, not Barack Obama, was on the ballot, so turnout by African American voters returned to pre-Obama levels," he concludes, leaving out the part where she sucks as a candidate.
Hillary Clinton also received four pinocchios from the Post for her claims of voter suppression in Georgia and Wisconsin. President Trump won Michigan by the closest margin of any state in his 2016 presidential election victory, winning by fewer than 11,000 votes, proving Lincoln's words about not fooling all of the people all of the time.
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