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A analysis agency commissioned by former President Donald Trump’s 2020 marketing campaign staff to show his electoral fraud claims as an alternative didn’t substantiate his theories, the Washington Put up reported Saturday.
The Berkeley Analysis Group was commissioned to look into voting information from six states, in accordance with the Put up, and a supply instructed the publication that the marketing campaign staff needed a couple of dozen claims examined. Folks acquainted with the matter instructed the publication that the findings didn’t match what the staff had hoped for, and the findings have been by no means launched.
Whereas some anomalies and “uncommon information patterns” have been discovered, the Put up reported, they wouldn’t have made a distinction to President Joe Biden’s victory.
The agency’s findings additionally refuted a few of Trump’s voting conspiracies, together with the identities of useless folks used to vote and Dominion voting programs used to govern the end result, the paper reported.
The analysis was performed within the final weeks of 2020 and earlier than the January 6 US Capitol assault, in accordance with the Put up. Two sources instructed CNN that the Home January 6 committee trying into the function Trump performed in inciting the rebellion didn’t know in regards to the agency’s work.
Trump has continued to repeat his election lies as he focuses on his 2024 White Home bid.
CNN beforehand reported that following two years of recommendation from allies and advisers to cease exhaustively relitigating the 2020 election, his first rally late final month confirmed an tried forward-driven message of what he would purpose to perform with a second time period.
The previous president has typically pushed again on that recommendation, arguing that his message is robust sufficient as it’s, and one supply near him instructed CNN his proclivity for specializing in the 2020 election shall be powerful to interrupt as a result of he nonetheless often hears from members of his base who imagine so-called election integrity is a vital speaking level as he seeks reelection.
One other adviser stated that regardless of the defeat of a number of Trump-backed midterm candidates who denied the legitimacy of the 2020 election, Trump has stated he doesn’t imagine their losses have been tied to their election lies.
