The President won Kentucky by 30 points.
Posted by Real Time with Bill Maher, Checked
- Sources
- 6 support2 context
- Said
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- Confidence
- 85%
Real Time with Bill MaherOct 24, 2026
Trump, the sitting president in the post's context, won Kentucky in 2024 by about 30.5 points (64.5% to 33.9%), so the claim holds for that election. The sources conflict on 2016 and 2020 margins, but the claim does not specify a year, and the 2024 figure matches 30 points.
What was said
… Yeah, what's your message to the people who say I shouldn't talk? If you get an opportunity to talk to any president, obviously you do it. And when I disagree with this President thank you and while I disagree with this President on a lot of things, I've actually sued this President 30 times from a state he won by 30 points. And some people have said, "Well, aren't you worried about your approval rating?" And my response is, What's an approval rating worth if you don't use it for something? …
Real Time with Bill Maher · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. NBC News reports Trump won Kentucky in 2024 by a 30.5-point margin, with 64.5% to Harris's 33.9%.[3]
Supports. AP and Reuters certified results show Trump at 64.5% and Harris at 33.9%, a margin of about 30.6 points.[1][2]
Supports. Opinion coverage and other tallies describe Trump's Kentucky margin as nearly 31 points or 30.5 points, consistent with the 2024 result.[4][5][6]
Context. Sources give Trump's 2020 Kentucky margin as about 26 points and 2016 as nearly 30 points, so the 30-point figure matches 2024 specifically rather than every term.[4][7][8]
Context. The claim matches the post's wording ("from a state he won by 30 points") with the post's own referent for "this President"; the extraction dropped the "sued 30 times" context without changing the margin.
Sources
8 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 2 tier 2, 3 not rated, 1 tier 1
- 1Kentucky election results 2024reuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 22024 Kentucky Election Resultsapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 3Kentucky Midterm Elections 2026 - NBC Newsnbcnews.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 4Trump has run for president 3 times. How did 2024 vote ...yahoo.com · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 5Trump has run for president 3 times. How did 2024 vote compare to past KY results?kentucky.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6Kentucky Presidential Voting History & Resultstheamericanvote.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 7Kentucky election results 2024 live updates | The Washington Postwashingtonpost.com · tier 2 · cited for: context
- 8Trump wins Kentuckythehill.com · tier 1 · cited for: context
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