There was no evidence to support Donald Trump's claims that election officials in Arizona were tampering with voting machines and that a large number of DetroitAbsentee Ballots were fraudulent.

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Donald Trump pushed voter fraud theories in several states.

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Trump claimed on his social media platform that voters who show up at their polling locations were told they had already voted.

The Secretary of State said that the issue was caused by an error message on the laptops used to determine if voters had already cast their ballots.

After the vote-counting machines malfunctioned in 20% of polling sites in Arizona, Trump followed the lead of the state's GOP chair, who advised voters not to get out of line based on the theory that they wouldn't win.

Voters who go to a polling site can check out, return their ballot and vote at another location, according to officials in the county.

County officials urged voters who encountered the glitch to drop their ballots into a separate box where they would be counted, despite Trump's claim that they are trying to steal the election with bad machines and Delay.

The vote count in Philadelphia was delayed because of a lawsuit from a conservative legal advocacy group that challenged the city's vote counting process.

The Pennsylvania Senate race was called a victory for John Fetterman by the Associated Press.

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In a Truth Social post, Trump said that Don Bolduc lost the New Hampshire Senate race because of his "longstanding" election fraud claims.

Key Background

202 GOP congressional candidates running this year who believed it was either flawed or based on fraud followed in the footsteps of the former president and promoted the baseless claim that the 2020 election was stolen. In Arizona, a pro-MAGA candidate was running for governor. The state's Republican Senate candidate had backed away from the baseless claim, but Trump encouraged him to follow Lake's example and promote the theory. In Michigan, the Republican candidate for governor spread 2020 election fraud in the run-up to the election, while Oz said at an April debate that he would have affirmed Biden's win if he had been president. The state had a delay in counting votes in the primary election.

What To Watch For

There are key Senate, House and governor's races. At 10 a.m., The Senate races in Alaska, Arizona, Georgia and Nevada have not been called. Republicans Herschel Walker in Georgia and Masters in Arizona are behind in the count. According to the Associated Press, Republican House candidates currently hold a 199-172 lead in House races. In Colorado, Adam Frisch is ahead of Lauren Boebert in a surprisingly close race, while Democrats won seats in traditionally Republican districts. According to FiveThirtyEight, the Republicans are still expected to win the House.

The Arizona vote- counting issues lead to baseless fraud claims.

There is a red wave of optimism among Republicans.

Election officials are worried that counting delays will fuel fraud.

A judge dismissed the voter fraud claims as a false flag.