No presidential candidate has won Ohio and Florida and lost election. Fact Check

In a tweet made by President Trump claiming the 2020 presidential election was rigged, the president made the claim that no candidate has won both the states of Ohio and Florida and went on to lose the election.

FALSE

The tweet by Donald Trump is below.

No candidate has ever won both Florida and Ohio and lost. I won them both, by a lot!

Of course it’s prudent to firstly note that the argument is a somewhat moot point when attempting to argue a case of election fraud, since winning both of these states is not a pre-requisite to either winning or losing an election. Any candidate can win any combination of US states that’s accumulative electoral college tally is less than 270, and it provides no certainty on whether they ultimately win or lose an election (though of course it can shift the odds.)

That is to say, winning both Ohio and Florida does not mean a candidate will win an election, nor does it indicate foul play if the candidate fails to win an election.

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With that said, Trump’s claim is false, since history shows that a losing candidate has indeed won both of these states and then lost the election. Republican Richard Nixon in the 1960 presidential election won both Ohio and Florida to the hands of Democrat John F Kennedy, and lost the election 303-219 in the electoral college. Kennedy also won the popular vote by just over 100,000 votes – far fewer than Biden’s over 6 million advantage.

As such, the claim that no losing candidate has won both Ohio and Florida in a US presidential election is false.