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Remember The Trump Rally Hate Crime Study? Here’s What Happens When You Look At Hillary’s Rallies.

Ashe Schow
Remember The Trump Rally Hate Crime Study? Here’s What Happens When You Look At Hillary’s Rallies.
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A study purporting to show that hate crimes increased 226% in counties that hosted rallies for then-candidate Donald Trump in 2016 has been officially debunked. Not only did the study’s authors fail to account for the fact that political campaigns prefer to host rallies in populous areas, which already experience more hate crimes, but the authors didn’t check to see if the same increase could be applied to Hillary Clinton’s rallies.

Simply applying the same formula as the original academics, two Ph.D. students from Harvard University found that “Clinton rallies contribute to an even greater increase in hate crimes incidents than Trump rallies.” (Emphasis original.)

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