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On Oct. 1, 2019, shortly after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the start of an official presidential impeachment investigation, President Donald Trump tweeted a map supposedly showing the results of the 2016 election with the words “try to impeach this” written across it:
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 1, 2019
The president appeared to be arguing that he has so much support across the country (illustrated by the large swaths of red on this map) that efforts to impeach him would be futile. However, this map is both inaccurate and misleading.
