Did CNN air a screenshot of election numbers that showed Kamala Harris winning Texas with 51.8 percent and 1,113,499 votes against Trump with 45.7 percent and 982,091 votes? No, that's not true: CNN said the image was "completely fabricated and manipulated" and that it "never aired on any CNN platform." Lead Stories found no credible proof that the post image was real.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) on X on November 3, 2024. It said:
Hey Texas, looks like they are stealing your election.
CNN's Public Relations team posted (archived here) to its X account on November 4, 2024, in response to the fake poll being shared as authentic. It read:
This image is completely fabricated and manipulated and it never aired on any CNN platform.
This is what the X post from CNN's PR team looked like at the time of writing:
(Source: X screenshot taken Mon Nov 4 20:59:32 2024 UTC)
Neither a reverse image search (archived here) using Google Lens, nor a Google News search (archived here) sorted by most recent results produced any evidence that the image was real.
In the 2020 presidential election, Trump received 5.8 million votes while Biden had 5.2 million votes in Texas, according to Federal Election Commission data.
At the time this fact check was written, Snopes had reviewed the same claim.
Additional Lead Stories fact checks concerning claims about Donald Trump can be found here and claims about Kamala Harris can be found here. Additional Lead Stories fact checks concerning claims about election polls can be found here.
