# Trump's Election Claims Fact-Checked

> Trump claims election wins but fact-check reveals discrepancies.
- Title: Trump's Election Claims Fact-Checked · TIME | Shortify
- Summary: Trump claims election wins but fact-check reveals discrepancies. Trump's 2024 election claims include accurate swing state wins but misstated popular vote…
- Keywords: donald trump, election, swing states, popular vote, electoral college, counties, inflation, iran, protests, unauthorized immigrants, poverty rate, inflation rate
- Source: TIME — https://time.com/article/2026/10/01/donald-trump-2026-interview-fact-check
- Author: Leslie Dickstein
- Published: 2026-10-01T11:00:00+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: donald trump, election, swing states, popular vote, electoral college, counties, inflation, iran, protests, unauthorized immigrants, poverty rate, inflation rate
## Trump's Election Claims
On Sept. 28, about five weeks before Election Day, President Donald Trump sat down for an interview with TIME in the White House.
## Popular Vote Claim
Trump said he won 86% popular vote but facts show he received 49.8% to Kamala Harris' 48.3%.

> I won all seven swing states. They said if you won three swing states, I won all seven. I won the counties. It's very important, 86% popular vote.
## Swing States Win
Trump won all seven swing states but did not win all counties in those areas.

> He won the counties.
## Iran Inflation
Iran's inflation hit 83.8% in September, down from previous month, with currency at 2.5 million rials per dollar.

> Their economy is gone. Their inflation is at 300% or something like that.
## Iran Protests
Iranian protests began in Tehran after currency collapse, lasting until mid-January with 3,117 deaths reported.

> They killed 75,000 people in the last number of months. Protesters…
## Israel Approval
Trump polls well in Israel with 66% confidence in 2026 Pew survey, but divided by political party.

> We're popular [in Israel], like 99%
## Border Claims
Trump claims 25 million unauthorized immigrants but data shows 10.8 million encounters and 14 million estimated unauthorized immigrants.

> He [Biden] allowed 25 million people that shouldn't have been here.
## Poverty Rate
Official poverty rate dropped to 10.2% but supplementary measure at 13.1%.

> Look at the poverty numbers. The lowest we've had in…ever.
## Inflation Rate
Trump's term saw inflation drop from 2.5% to 1.4% while Biden's term peaked at 8%.

> When I took over, I inherited the greatest inflation in history.
## Automakers
Automakers are adapting plants to EV production, not building new ones.

> Look, we're building more automobile plants in the United States, and bigger ones, than we've ever built before.
## Convention Views
Trump's GOP convention speech averaged 2.5 million viewers versus NFL's 25.1 million.

> We got more views, they got 25 million, we got 107 [million].
## Manufacturing Jobs
Manufacturing jobs at 12.6 million, down from peak of 19.6 million in 1979.

> We got more manufacturing jobs coming online than at any time in the history of our country.
## Key takeaway

Trump's 2024 election claims include accurate swing state wins but misstated popular vote and county margins.