Wednesday, Sep. 29, 2021
Did the Arizona audit show that Donald Trump won the state?
A video on social media includes conservative pundit Dick Morris claiming, "The audit had very different conclusions and basically proved that Trump won the state."
In fact, the audit in Maricopa County, Arizona's most populous county, showed that Joe Biden beat Donald Trump there by nearly 45,000 votes. That edge contributed to Biden's victory in the state as a whole, where he won by close to 10,500 votes.
Nowhere in the report from Cyber Ninjas, the company hired to do the GOP-commissioned audit, does it say that Trump won the vote in Arizona.
As support for his claim, Morris argued that there's a difference between a recount and an audit. That's a specious argument. The full hand-recount of all 2.1 million ballots from the 2020 election in Maricopa County was part of the audit.
This fact brief is responsive to conversations such as this one.
Sources
- Arizona Senate GOP Caucus Cyber Ninjas Report
- Arizona Secretary of State Arizona Election Results
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