And the Lies Begin

 CNN 

With 80% of votes counted, Maduro won more than 51% of the vote, besting the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) candidate Edmundo González Urrutia, who gained more than 44%, according to a statement by the National Electoral Council (CNE).

But the opposition painted a very different picture of the results. Opposition leader María Corina Machado said in a news conference that their own records showed their candidate Edmundo González Urrutia had received 70% of the vote against Maduro’s 30%.

“We won, and everyone knows it,” Machado said, adding that the opposition would “defend the truth.”

“The entire international community knows what happened in Venezuela and how people voted for change,” she said. 

 ABC

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States has ‘serious concerns’ about the announced result of Venezuela’s hotly contested presidential election that authorities say was won by incumbent Nicolas Maduro.  

 

Fox News

Despite Maduro being declared the winner of a third term, the opposition claimed victory, setting up a showdown with the government over the results... "The Venezuelans and the entire world know what happened," González said.

New York Times

Venezuela’s Autocrat Is Declared Winner in Tainted Election

Mr. Maduro’s government has invented election results before, and this tally was immediately called into question by the opposition and by several officials in the region.

Washington Post

World leaders cast doubt on Maduro’s claim of victory in Venezuelan election

remember all the fake polls they cited leading up to the election?

The Times

Opposition parties said they had evidence from election machine printouts at polling stations that González was the rightful winner, by a landslide. “We have all the minutes transmitted by the electoral council,” said María Corina Machado, the opposition leader who had been banned from standing in the election and asked her supporters to support González, a retired diplomat. “They all coincide: Edmundo González Urrutia obtained 70 per cent of the votes.”

Weeks of pre-election polling had shown Maduro trailing by more than 25 percentage points...

Javier Milei, the president of Argentina, was more forceful. “Maduro. Dictator. Get out!” he said, shortly before the result was announced. He said Argentina hoped “that the armed forces this time will defend democracy and the popular will”.

It's all the same. Across the board. No matter the publication supports Trump or Kamala, Western press says the election was rigged and their neoliberal fascist candidate SHOULD have won... in a proudly socialist nation.