Kate Starbird is a professor at the University of Washington, and one of the lead researchers behind the Election Integrity Partnership, which looks into election-related misinformation. She talked with KNKX All Things Considered host Ed Ronco. Producer: Posey Gruener.
The predictions turned out to be true — that we would not know the result of the presidential contest on Election Night, and that there would be false claims in the meantime.
Last night, President Donald Trump incorrectly claimed victory, with no basis for doing so. At the time of his remarks from the East Room of the White House, neither candidate was close to the threshold of 270 electoral votes needed to claim the presidency.
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