President Donald Trump once again made an incendiary and false claim on Twitter about the 2020 US election, prompting the social network to flag another post as "disputed" and potentially "misleading."
—Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) November 4, 2020
Early Wednesday morning, Trump claimed he was "up BIG, but they are trying to STEAL the Election." He added that votes "cannot be cast after the Poles are closed," later deleting the post to correct the spelling of "polls."
Twitter's move means that the post can no longer be retweeted.
Trump's latest claim comes a day after he intimated that there could be "violence in the streets" if states such as Pennsylvania counted mail-in ballots that were received after Election Day. Pennsylvania has said it will count such ballots through Friday, provided there is no evidence they were cast after polls closed (such evidence might include a late postmarked date).
That decision came amid reports that the US Postal Service had been unable to keep up with the massive influx in mail ballots. Earlier this week, an analysis by the NAACP found that roughly 300,000 ballots had been processed by USPS but not delivered.
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