Conservatives are leveraging President-elect Donald Trump’s 2024 electoral victory to again allege the 2020 election was fraudulent, demonstrating the prevalence of election integrity misinformation.

“Kamala got 60 million votes in 2024,” Dinesh D’Souza wrote around 8 a.m. ET Nov. 6 on X. “Does anyone really believe Biden got 80 million in 2020? Where did those 20 million Democratic voters go? The truth is, they never existed. I think we can put the lie about Biden’s 80 million votes to rest once and for all.”

D’Souza was behind the widely discredited 2022 movie “2,000 Mules” that outlined an unsubstantiated effort by “mules” to illegally deposit ballots into ballot drop boxes to sway the 2020 election.

We saw similar claims from conservative commentator Benny Johnson, who called the 2020 to 2024 Democratic vote count difference “very sus,” short for suspicious, and J.R. Majewski, an Ohio Republican who ran for Congress unsuccessfully in 2022 and 2024, who declared the results proved “2020 was stolen.”

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These claims are a revamped version of the persistent falsehood that the 2020 election was fraudulent, which PolitiFact has debunked countless times.

We tried contacting D’Souza through his online store and Instagram account, and received no response before publication.

The 2020 election was not stolen. President Joe Biden won the 2020 election. States certified the results, Congress accepted the results and Biden was inaugurated in January 2021. Election security officials — including Republicans and people in Trump’s own administration — have said the 2020 election was secure. When fraud occurred, it was isolated and did not change the results. In four years, Trump and his allies have produced no evidence of widespread fraud.

Across the country, Trump and his allies lost more than 60 lawsuits challenging the 2020 election outcome. A group of Republicans, including former federal judges, examined Trump and his allies’ fraud and miscount claims and concluded that they “failed to present evidence of fraud or inaccurate results `significant enough to invalidate the results.”’

Read the full article about election integrity and misinformation by Madison Czopek at Poynter.