AP FACT CHECK: Trump inflates his fragment of females’s votes

MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa. (AP) — President Donald Trump falsely claimed Saturday night that a majority of females voted for him within the 2016 election.

His commentary at a rally in toughen of Rick Saccone, Republican candidate in a Dwelling special election Tuesday:

TRUMP: « Girls folks! We esteem you! We esteem you. Whats up, did now not we shock them with females at some stage within the election? Be acutely conscious? ‘Girls folks also can now not esteem Donald Trump.’ I mentioned, comprise I in actual fact had that style of an topic? I method now not mediate so. But, ‘Girls folks also can now not esteem Donald Trump. It will seemingly be a rough night for Donald Trump since the females also can now not come out.’ We bought fifty two %, excellent? fifty two. »

THE FACTS: Exit polls stumbled on he bought forty one % of the votes from females within the election, now not fifty two %. The decide he cited — fifty two % — applies handiest to white females. The surveys of voters stumbled on that handiest 4 % of sunless females and 25 % of Hispanic females voted for him.

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