“"WHEN THE STEAL IS TOO OBVIOUS AND YOU SCRAMBLE TO FIX IT!" — anonymous user on the forum "The Donald" (patriots.win), Nov. 5, 2026, sharing screenshots of an NBC News board briefly showing James Talarico at 91.9 percent in Tarrant County”
The claim: “"WHEN THE STEAL IS TOO OBVIOUS AND YOU SCRAMBLE TO FIX IT!" — anonymous user on the forum "The Donald" (patriots.win), Nov. 5, 2026, sharing screenshots of an NBC News board briefly showing James Talarico at 91.9 percent in Tarrant County”
Why we rated it this way: Tarrant County's own cumulative report lists Talarico with 427,879 votes, or 58.72 percent, to Ken Paxton's 287,783, or 39.50 percent, in the U.S. Senate race, close to the 59.8 percent NBC showed after the fix and nowhere near 91.9 percent. The Associated Press told AFP that a data-entry error briefly showed Paxton with 22,403 votes in the county instead of 202,403 and was corrected within three minutes, and NBC's Steve Kornacki flagged the number as out of whack on air. A mistyped figure in a media feed that was corrected minutes later does not change any ballots, so it is not evidence that votes were stolen.
See the evidenceWhat would change our rating: A county or state canvass, audit, recount or court finding showing that the Tarrant County tally itself was wrong, or that ballots were added or removed, would move this verdict.
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Tarrant County's own cumulative report lists Talarico with 427,879 votes, or 58.72 percent, to Ken Paxton's 287,783, or 39.50 percent, in the U.S. Senate race, close to the 59.8 percent NBC showed after the fix and nowhere near 91.9 percent. The Associated Press told AFP that a data-entry error briefly showed Paxton with 22,403 votes in the county instead of 202,403 and was corrected within three minutes, and NBC's Steve Kornacki flagged the number as out of whack on air. A mistyped figure in a media feed that was corrected minutes later does not change any ballots, so it is not evidence that votes were stolen.
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Nov 9, 2026, 5:30 PM CST
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Evening Check. A viral post called a 91.9 percent number for James Talarico on NBC's election-night board proof of a steal in Tarrant County, Texas. The AP says it was a data-entry error fixed within three minutes, and the county's own count gives Talarico 58.72 percent. Verdict: contradicted.
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