Political Website Didn't Withdraw Projection for Biden to Win Pennsylvania

Zach Rathner

Politics

13th November 2020

Political Website Didn't Withdraw Projection for Biden to Win Pennsylvania

The news site never projected a winner for the state (Getty Images).

The Claim

American political news site Real Clear Politics withdrew its projection of Joe Biden winning Pennsylvania.

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In a tweet, President Trump's attorney said that the website Real Clear Politics had taken away its projection of having Joe Biden win the state.

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Users across social media continued to spread this claim.

Misbar’s Analysis

The Misbar team has determined the claim is false. While the presidential race in Pennsylvania was called by multiple news outlets (Associated Press, Fox News) the news site Real Clear Politics never projected a winner for the state. The Associated Press said that they made their call to project Biden as the winner in Pennsylvania after he held a 34,243 vote lead in the state and determined that the remaining ballots would not change the lead in Trump’s favor.

RealClearPolitics President Tom Bevan responded to Giuliani’s tweet, saying: “This is false. We never called Pennsylvania, and nothing has changed.”

While the site currently lists Biden as the projected winner of Pennsylvania, an archived version of the site dated November 9, the day in which Giuliani made the claim, showed Pennsylvania as having not yet been called.