Until the day of the American election, Donald Trump and his supporters repeated their accusations of supposed electoral fraud. But since the Republican won, these fears have suddenly disappeared.
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On Tuesday, November 5, the last day to vote in the United States, Donald Trump mentioned “rumors” according to which voting operations in Philadelphia, in the hotly contested state of Pennsylvania, were parasitized by “massive fraud” – accusations immediately denied by the authorities.
But since, on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, he was declared the winner by the American media, the billionaire has not returned to these accusations, forgetting, in general, his allegations relating to the supposed lack of integrity of the electoral operations.
Donald Trump has never acknowledged his defeat against Joe Biden in 2020, repeating since that the election was “stolen” from him, even though the courts rejected his challenges.
“As soon as the first results appeared in their favor on Tuesday evening, the Republicans put an end to their accusations of electoral fraud, showing that it was a scam,” said Philip Mai, co-director of the Social Media Lab, a research institute based in Canada.
Drying
This was particularly visible on
When polling stations opened on Tuesday, November 5, some 1,000 publications per hour were recorded, according to the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) organization.
AFP
Since Donald Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris, decided by the media very early Wednesday morning, the pace has slowed to reach around 100 publications per hour, according to this organization.
This reflects a widespread trend on social networks where Donald Trump supporters are active, including his own platform, Truth Social, according to Welton Chang, co-founder of Pyrra Technologies, which monitors network margins.
“Trump himself stopped talking about it,” he emphasizes. “There is a leader-following effect.”
On the left too
Because it is not only Donald Trump who has stopped talking about supposed problems at the polls since Tuesday evening, but also his lieutenants.
Asked on CNN whether he considers the election legitimate, Republican elected official close to Donald Trump Jim Jordan answered in the affirmative – while refusing to continue after the suggestion that Republicans only cry fraud when they lose .
Outgoing Democratic President Joe Biden, as well as his vice-president and candidate Kamala Harris, acknowledged defeat.
But under the keyword #DoNotConcedeKamala — #KamalaNeCèdePas –, tens of thousands of publications on X make allegations of fraud that would have cost Democrats votes.
But “no major candidate, no political leader, has echoed this,” said Danielle Lee Tomson, of the Center for an Informed Public at the University of Washington, to AFP.
These unfounded allegations, on the left, “are diffuse, really weaker because there is no leader who gives them an echo, while this was the case on the right in 2020 and 2022”, underlines the researcher.
