There’s no other way to put it. Venezuela’s socialist president Nicolás Maduro has used his government-controlled electoral authority to “win” reelection. Discrepancies between the exit polls and the “official” results are too great to attribute to margin of error.
Exit polls (Edison Research, WSJ):
Opposition leader González: 65%
Socialist dictator Maduro: 31%Results from the Election Council:
Socialist dictator Maduro: 51.2%
Opposition leader González: 44.2%
Exit polls (Edison Research, WSJ):
Opposition leader González: 65%
Socialist dictator Maduro: 31%Results from the Election Council:
Socialist dictator Maduro: 51.2%
Opposition leader González: 44.2%No leader or media organization should legitimize this fake election in any…
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 29, 2024
Maduro exit polls showed he lost by 34-points but the “official” Election Council results show he “won” by 7-points. That didn’t happen.
Reactions on social media are coming in.
The Venezuelan elections were a complete fraud – Maduro did not win that election at all, but this is what Communists do!
Kamala Harris won’t condemn it, though, because she can’t condemn it: it’s the exact same way she plans to ascend to the presidency in November and exactly… pic.twitter.com/lMiMv38t9k
— Joey Mannarino (@JoeyMannarinoUS) July 29, 2024
BREAKING REPORT: Maduro regime puts out FAKE POLLING NUMBERS in an attempt to STEAL the Venezuelan election with numbers that equal 109%
COMING TO AMERICA? pic.twitter.com/60u1Y8vDCA
— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) July 29, 2024
BREAKING.🚨
Venezuela's regime has announced that socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro is the "WINNER" of the election despite rampant and verifiable reports of FRAUD.
• Maduro: 51.2%
• González: 44.2%Venezuela's election was clearly *STOLEN.* pic.twitter.com/Gwg7tXlWnG
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) July 29, 2024
BREAKING: Venezuelan National Electoral Council says President Nicolas Maduro has won the election despite exit polls suggesting the opposite.
The council claimed Maduro won with 51.20% of the vote.
Argentina president Javier Milei announced that Argentina would not be… pic.twitter.com/ItctgVzvz9
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 29, 2024
According to The Guardian:
After a six-hour delay in releasing the results of Sunday’s poll prompted international concern, Venezuela’s electoral council claimed Maduro had won with 51.21% of votes compared with 44.2% for his rival, the former diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia.
The council said that with about 80% of votes counted, Maduro had secured more than 5m compared with González’s 4.4m.
Independent observers had described the election as the most arbitrary in recent years, even by the standards of an authoritarian regime that started with Maduro’s mentor and predecessor, Hugo Chávez.
Critics blame Maduro for leading Venezuela into a crippling economic and social crisis, as well as turning the country into an increasingly repressive state where political opponents are routinely jailed and tortured.
As they say, you can vote yourself into socialism but you can’t vote yourself out of it.
It worked so well here, Maduro decided to make it a Venezuelan thing. FJB/FKH/FNM/F Democrats