选举日投票结束已经一周多了，当选总统也有几天了乔·拜登被宣布为2020年总统竞选的获胜者，尽管如此，总统唐纳德·特朗普尚未接受的结果选举。
特朗普所做的是继续加倍努力，声称今年的选举是“操纵的”，全国各地存在大量选民欺诈，使他失去了胜利。
声称选举中存在广泛的选民欺诈是不真实的，但特朗普竞选团队和共和党全国委员会正在几个州提起诉讼，声称存在欺诈。尽管他们抱怨，但他们没有提供任何欺诈证据，也没有证实总统的任何说法。
这不是特朗普第一次在选举结果令他不满意的情况下对选举欺诈提出指控。多年来，这一直是他剧本的一部分——早在他从政之前。
2012年大选
2012年大选之夜，巴拉克·奥巴马总统再次当选，特朗普说这次选举是“彻头彻尾的骗局”这是一种“嘲弄”，同时在奥巴马获得胜利后还声称美国“不是一个民主国家”。
特朗普甚至在推特上写道，“我们不能让这种事情发生。我们应该向华盛顿进军，停止这种嘲弄。我们民族彻底分裂了!”
有人声称，奥巴马在选举中战胜米特·罗姆尼(Mitt Romney)是“假的”，2012年的民主进程就像现在一样，每次选举都是如此，因为选票是由州和地方官员列表和认证的。
特朗普此前还呼吁美国人民，大概是那些没有投票给奥巴马的人，“像地狱一样战斗，停止这种巨大而令人厌恶的不公正”，因为“全世界都在嘲笑我们。”
特朗普在2012年首次质疑选举结果，在2016年继续质疑，现在在2020年再次质疑。
2016年初选和大选
当他在2016年竞选共和党候选人时，他试图质疑选举过程。特朗普表示，他没有失去2016年爱荷华州党团会议给当时的候选人特德·克鲁兹，因为他“偷了它”
“特德·克鲁兹没有赢得爱荷华州，他偷了它。这就是为什么所有的民意测验都是错误的，也是为什么他获得的选票比预期的多得多。不好!”特朗普当时在推特上写道。
他还写道，“根据参议员特德·克鲁兹在爱荷华州党团会议期间犯下的欺诈行为，要么举行新的选举，要么克鲁兹的结果无效。”
克鲁兹在2016年共和党爱荷华州党团会议上明显胜出，以3个百分点的优势击败特朗普。
2016年10月，就在大选前几周，特朗普想通过发推特对结果表示怀疑，“选举绝对是被不诚实和扭曲的媒体操纵的，这些媒体推着不诚实的希拉里——但也在许多投票站——SAD，”但没有为这一说法提供任何证据。
即使在选举结束后，很明显克林顿输了，并承认输给了特朗普，总统也没有停止对他赢得的选举感到遗憾。他很快声称自己也赢得了对克林顿的普选，这是没有发生的事情。
特朗普说:“除了以压倒性优势赢得选举团之外，如果扣除数百万非法投票的人，我还赢得了普选。”
总统以近300万张选票的优势在普选中输给了克林顿，当时没有选民欺诈的证据，就像现在没有选民欺诈的证据一样。
2020年大选
快进到今天，特朗普走上了他最喜欢的平台，就在主要媒体预测拜登将是今年选举的获胜者之前，他在推特上虚假地说，“我以很大的优势赢得了这次选举!”
推特之所以标记这条推文，是因为特朗普没有被宣布为胜利者，也是因为自他8月17日在威斯康星州奥什科什举行集会以来的几个月里——当时他著名地说，“如果选举被操纵，我们将输掉这场选举的唯一方法就是”——特朗普一直试图质疑美国的选举进程。
特朗普在秋季的很长一段时间里继续攻击邮寄选票和缺席选票，这样当选票被制成表格时，他就可以怀疑并推测自己是邮件投票系统欺诈的受害者。
在推特上，选举日的第二天，随着拜登的领先优势在几个州变得越来越明显，特朗普在推特上写道，“他们发现拜登的选票遍布各地——在宾夕法尼亚州、威斯康星州和密歇根州。对我们国家太不利了!'
第二天，总统声称他一直说邮寄选票是不可信的。
“我已经谈论邮寄投票很久了。它真的摧毁了我们的系统。这是一个腐败的系统。它使人们腐败，即使他们不是天生的，但他们变得腐败;太容易了。他们想搞清楚自己需要多少票，然后好像就能找到。他们等了又等，然后他们找到了他们，”特朗普在选举日的两天后说。
随着邮寄选票的继续统计，宾夕法尼亚州等州开始显示出明显的拜登领先优势。
在选举日之后的几天里，特朗普继续在推特上制造谎言，社交媒体平台很快对此进行了标记。“警惕大规模计票滥用...记得我告诉过你!”他在推特上声称，选票收集已经发生，他对这种可能性的判断是正确的。
特朗普多年来一直坚持这一策略;然而，他的主张从未促使选举过程发生有意义的变化。
这次，总统是通过法律系统处理他的索赔没有证据支持他们。与此同时，竞选团队正在继续为战斗筹集资金，因为很明显，总统不愿意很快放弃。
Trump has longstanding history of calling elections 'rigged' if he doesn’t like the results
It's been over a week since the polls closed on Election Day, and a few days since President-electJoe Bidenwas declared the winner of the 2020 presidential race, and still, PresidentDonald Trumphas not accepted the results of theelection.
What Trump has done is continue to double down on his claims that this year's election was "rigged" and there were massive amounts of voter fraud nationwide that cost him his victory.
There is no truth to the claims that there was widespread voter fraud in the election, yet the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee are pursuing lawsuits in several states claiming that there was. Despite their complaints, they have not provided any evidence of fraud or corroborated any of the president's claims.
This is not the first time Trump has made claims about election fraud when the results do not please him. It has been a part of his playbook for years -- long before he entered politics.
2012 general election
On election night in 2012, when President Barack Obama was reelected,Trump said that the election was a "total sham"and a "travesty," while also making the claim that the United States is "not a democracy" after Obama secured his victory.
Trump even wrote on Twitter, "We can't let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided!"
There was no truth to the claims that Obama's election victory against Sen. Mitt Romney was a "sham" and the democratic process played out in 2012 as it is doing now and has with every election, as the votes are tabulated and certified by states and local officials.
Trump also previously called for the American people, presumably those who didn't vote for Obama, to "fight like hell and stop this great and disgusting injustice," because "the world is laughing at us."
Trump first challenged the election results in 2012, continued to do so in 2016 and has now done it again in 2020.
2016 primary and general election
When he ran to become the Republican Party nominee in 2016,he attempted to cast doubt on the election process. Trump said he did not lose theIowa caucuses in 2016to then candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, because he "stole it."
"Ted Cruz didn't win Iowa, he stole it. That is why all of the polls were so wrong and why he got far more votes than anticipated. Bad!" Trump wrote on Twitter at the time.
He also wrote, "Based on the fraud committed by Senator Ted Cruz during the Iowa Caucus, either a new election should take place or Cruz results nullified."
Cruz was the clear victor for the Republican Iowa caucus in 2016, as he defeated Trump by three percentage points.
In October 2016, just weeks before the general election, Trump wanted to cast doubt on the results by tweeting, "The election is absolutely being rigged by the dishonest and distorted media pushing Crooked Hillary - but also at many polling places - SAD," without providing any evidence for the claim.
Even after the election ended and it was clear that Clinton had lost and conceded victory to Trump, the president didn't stop lamenting over the election he had won. He quickly made the claim that he also won the popular vote over Clinton, which is something that did not happen.
"In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally," said Trump.
The president lost the popular vote to Clinton by nearly 3 million votes, and there was no evidence of voter fraud then, just as there is no evidence of voter fraud now.
2020 general election
Fast forward to today, Trump took to his favorite platform, just moments before major media outlets had projected Biden the winner in this year's election, and falsely tweeted, "I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!"
That tweet was flagged by Twitter because Trump was not declared the victor, and because for months since his rally on Aug. 17 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin -- when he famously said, "The only way we're going to lose this election is if the election is rigged" -- Trump has been attempting to cast doubt on the American electoral process.
Trump continued to attack mail-in ballots and absentee ballots well into the fall months so that when the ballots were to be tabulated, he could cast doubt and speculate that he was the victim of fraud due to the vote-by-mail system.
On Twitter, the day after Election Day, as Biden's lead was becoming more evident in several states, Trump tweeted, "They are finding Biden votes all over the place — in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. So bad for our Country!'
The next day, the president made the claim that he has always said mail-in ballots are not to be trusted.
"I've been talking about mail-in voting for a long time. It's -- it's really destroyed our system. It's a corrupt system. And it makes people corrupt even if they aren't by nature, but they become corrupt; it's too easy. They want to find out how many votes they need, and then they seem to be able to find them. They wait and wait and then they find them," Trump said two days after Election Day.
As mail-in ballots continued to be counted, states like Pennsylvania began to show a clear Biden lead.
In the days after Election Day, Trump continued to make falsehoods on Twitter, which the social media platform quickly flagged. "WATCH FOR MASSIVE BALLOT COUNTING ABUSE...REMEMBER I TOLD YOU SO!" he tweeted, claiming that ballot harvesting took place and he was right about the potential of it happening.
Trump has stuck to this playbook for years; however, his claims have never prompted a meaningful change in the election process.
This time, the president istaking his claims through the legal systemwith no evidence to back them up. Meanwhile, the campaign is continuing to raise money for the battles, as it's clear the president isn't willing to give up quickly.
