Trump Touts New Study Estimating 289,000 'Excess Votes' In Battleground States
Trump Shares New Study Estimating 289,000 ‘Excess Votes’ in Battleground States President Donald Trump on Dec. 30 shared a new study by economist John Lott, which calls into question Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s victory over Trump. It purports to show that there were 289,000 “excess votes” across six battleground states, and claims that differences in absentee votes between counties with alleged fraud and adjacent counties is “suspicious.” Trump posted a link to Lott’s study on Twitter, writing, “New Lott study estimates 11,350 absentee votes lost to Trump ...