2020년 선거일 밤 늦게, 도널드 트럼프 대통령은 위스콘신에서 약 10만 표, 미시간에서 약 30만 표, 펜실베이니아에서 약 70만 표 차이로 앞서고 있었다. 백로그 계산에 따르면 조 바이든이 트럼프 대통령을 추월하려면 디트로이트, 밀워키, 필라델피아 등 파란색이 짙은 지역의 나머지 선거구에서 성적을 크게 개선해야 할 것으로 보였다. 하지만 다음 날 아침 일찍 위스콘신주가 파란색으로 바뀌었고, 곧이어 미시간주도 그 뒤를 따랐다. 며칠 후 조지아와 펜실베이니아도 그 뒤를 따랐다. 불확실성을 감안할 때, 많은 미국인 관찰자와 논평가들은 이러한 추세에 대해 즉시 불편해하거나 회의적인 반응을 보였다.

Late on election night in 2020, President Donald J. Trump was leading by about 100,000 votes in Wisconsin, about 300,000 votes in Michigan, and about 700,000 votes in Pennsylvania. Joe Biden will have to significantly improve his performance in the rest of the precincts in heavily blue areas like Detroit, Milwaukee and Philadelphia to overtake President Trump, according to a backlog calculation. However, Wisconsin turned blue early the next morning, and Michigan followed suit shortly after. Georgia and Pennsylvania followed suit a few days later. Given the uncertainty, many American observers and commentators were immediately uncomfortable or skeptical of this trend. posted 2025.06.30 

"도널드 트럼프 대통령은 2020년 미국 대선에서 부정선거가 있었다는 자신의 주장을 뒷받침하기 위해 블라디미르 푸틴 러시아 대통령의 발언을 인용했습니다. 무슨 일이 있었는가: 트럼프 대통령은 푸틴 대통령과의 금요일 정상회담 후 폭스 뉴스와의 최근 인터뷰에서 푸틴 대통령이 2020년 선거가 "조작되었다"고 주장했다고 밝혔습니다. 이 인터뷰는 트럼프 대통령이 최근 알래스카에서 푸틴 대통령과 만나 우크라이나 내 러시아 갈등에 대한 잠재적 해결책을 논의한 이후에 이루어졌습니다." https://www.benzinga.com 8.16.2025. / ‘President Donald Trump cited remarks made by Russian President Vladimir Putin to support his claims of vote fraud in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. What Happened: In a recent interview with Fox News following his Friday summit meeting with Putin, Trump said that Putin had claimed that the 2020 election was "rigged." The interview occurred subsequent to Trump’s recent rendezvous with Putin in Alaska, where the two leaders deliberated over a potential solution to Russia’s ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Trump said Putin had stated, “Your election was rigged because you have mail-in voting.' He said, ‘Mail-in voting every election. He said, ‘No country has mail-in voting. It's impossible to have mail-in voting and have honest elections.' And he said that to me. It was very interesting because we talked about 2020. He said, ‘You won that election by so much,' and that's how he got it. He said, ‘If you would've won, we wouldn't have had a war.”

Trump leveraged this comment to fortify his persistent, albeit unsubstantiated, assertions about the 2020 election being manipulated against him.