PolitiFact decided to look into a February 9 tweet in which Rep. Elise Stefanik said that 53 percent of Americans would have changed their vote if they’d known about the Hunter Biden laptop story, which was suppressed by social media and proudly ignored by outlets like NPR.
If many members of this group were to change their vote because of the laptop story, they might well have changed their vote from Trump to Biden, which given the partisan nature of voting in 2020, wouldn’t make sense. https://t.co/nV4EjBB89Z
— The Buffalo News (@TheBuffaloNews) February 25, 2023
PolitiFact rates her tweet false and reports:
The laptop was left at a Delaware computer repair shop, and some of the laptop’s contents were reported by the New York Post in October 2020, weeks before the presidential election. The laptop story was suspected to be Russian-planted disinformation, but subsequent reporting shows that does not appear to be the case.
Hold up … does not appear to be the case? It took them years, but even the major networks used forensic analysis to confirm the contents.
Stefanik’s claim — that 53% of people made aware of the laptop story would have changed their vote — adds together the 28% of respondents who said they were “very likely” to have changed their votes, and the 25% who said they were “somewhat likely.” Rounding out the pool were 17% who said they were “not very likely,” 25% who were “not at all likely,” and 6% who were “unsure.”
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We’ll never know, will we? PolitiFact says Stefanik’s claim is illogical because the poll included Republicans, who wouldn’t have voted for Joe Biden anyway.
You are lying. Here's the receipts 👇
How do you sleep at night?The largest politcal group are independent voters.
One in six Biden voters would have changed their minds if they had known the full story https://t.co/MrWjLMEetB
— Jeff Pfaff🇺🇲 (@JPfaff1028) February 25, 2023
You lied.
— Chris (@Christine2523) February 25, 2023
Doubling down on the laptop interference? That’s a really bad look for journalism.
— #NoMasFakeNews Caputo (@MichaelRCaputo) February 25, 2023
Imagine doubling down on one of your WORST opinions and then being surprised when people call you a fucking hypocrite.
Looking right directly at you, @TheBuffaloNews.
— Just a 70's kid stuck in 1984 (@THEMarkEdwards1) February 25, 2023
The best part of the Buffalo News was always the Sunday comics. The rest of it has been crap for 50 years.
— Robert Bruce Willsie (@bobw222) February 25, 2023
What about independents? They’re the ones who allegedly swung the vote for Biden. And they couldn’t follow the story closely anyway since the media decided it was Russian information and refused to dignify it with coverage.
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At ‘Disinformation’ event, Jonah Goldberg calls it ‘preposterous’ to suggest Hunter Biden laptop story could’ve changed 2020 election outcome https://t.co/vn3Y8421QP
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