October 17, 2016 01:15 PM UTC

Trump's Rigged Election Claims Backfiring in Colorado

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• by: Colorado Pols

The election is absolutely being rigged by the dishonest and distorted media pushing Crooked Hillary – but also at many polling places – SAD

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 16, 2016

Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump may have realized finally that he isn’t likely to be the next resident of the White House, which is why he is busy trying to create a soft landing for himself in three weeks. Trump can feel better about losing to Democrat Hillary Clinton if he can convince people that this whole thing was rigged against him from the start…except, it’s not.

Trump may not realize, but his fraud talk infuriates actual, real-life election officials >https://t.co/PyjYOk5WTo

— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) October 17, 2016

Colorado political reporter Ernest Luning has been dutifully keeping up with various responses from Colorado election officials regarding Trump’s increasing claims that the 2016 election is “rigged.” Lynn Bartels of the Colorado Secretary of State’s office wins the quotation battle today, responding to Trump claims of voter fraud by saying, “I can say on Twitter I’m a super model, but that doesn’t make it so.”

The Colorado County Clerks’ Association is equally adamant that there is no anti-Trump conspiracy at play in Colorado:

Letter from @CoCtyClerks re Trump voter fraud, “rigged” election charges: “no factual data to support utterly wild assertions” #copolitics pic.twitter.com/3hFel3bMQ5

— Ernest Lee Luning (@eluning) October 17, 2016

If you’re looking for some sort of factual basis on which Trump is relying in order to push his “rigged election” narrative, you’re going to be disappointed. If you have your heart set on believing any of this nonsense, you can have fun with this chart from the Washington Post.