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Monday, Feb. 12, 2024

In the 2020 presidential election, did Donald Trump get 83 million votes and Joe Biden 66 million?

Tom Kertscher, Wisconsin Watch
no

Joe Biden received 81,283,501 votes (51.3%) and Donald Trump received 74,223,975 (46.9%) in the 2020 presidential election.

At a Feb. 4, 2024, rally in Sturtevant in southeastern Wisconsin, MyPillow founder Mike Lindell falsely stated that Trump received 83 million votes and Biden 66 million.

Lindell, a Minnesota resident, is prominent in the election conspiracy movement. He has falsely claimed that voting machines were manipulated to steal the 2020 presidential election.

Last April, an arbitration panel ordered Lindell to pay $5 million to a software developer who proved that Lindell was wrong in his claim that data showed voting machine fraud in the election.

Biden won by collecting 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232.

In Wisconsin, Biden won 1,630,673 votes (49.5%) to Trump’s 1,610,065 (48.8%).

Wisconsin has been decided by less than 1 percentage point in four of the last six presidential elections, dating back to 2000.

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