Politics & Government
Trump Takes Aim At Philadelphia In Friday Morning Tweet
President Donald Trump Friday tweeted a quote from a Fox Business program that questioned Philadelphia's election integrity.
PHILADELPHIA — As Pennsylvania's vote totals shifted in favor of Joe Biden Friday, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to question the city's elections.
Trump tweeted a quote from the Fox Business program Varney & Co. at about 10 a.m. Friday.
The quote reads "Philadelphia has got a rotten history on election integrity."
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Trump's quote also misspelled Philadelphia as "Philadelpiha."
“Philadelpiha has got a rotten history on election integrity.” @Varneyco @FoxBusiness
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 6, 2020
Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar said Thursday have been no recent reports of fraud, save for one instance weeks ago when someone attempted to apply for a ballot for their deceased mother.
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As of 10:40 a.m. Friday, Biden has 553,953 votes in Philadelphia, Trump just 125,513.
Philadelphia has about 23,200 mail-in ballots left to count. In Pennsylvania, Biden is up 3,297,339 to Trump's 3,290,597. The state reports a total of 124,169 mail-in ballots are yet to be counted.
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