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On the recordApril 2, 2019
You better watch those vote tallies. You know, I keep hearing about the election and the various counting measures that they have. There were a lot of close elections that were -- they seemed to every single one of them went Democrat. If it was close, they say the Democrat, where there's something going on? You've got to -- hey, you've got to be a little bit more paranoid than you are, OK?
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Donald Trump
Republican · Florida

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Trump expresses suspicion about vote tallies and suggests that close elections tend to favor Democrats, implying potential wrongdoing.

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