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AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s claims on vaccine, election are wrong

by Hope YenLauran Neergaard
| November 10, 2020 1:39 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Refusing to concede a presidential election he lost, President Donald Trump sought falsely to take full credit for drugmaker Pfizer Inc.’s announcement that its COVID-19 vaccine may be 90% effective, wrongly asserted the vaccine news was delayed until after Election Day to undermine him and repeated baseless claims of voter fraud.

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