by Sharon Rondeau
(Aug. 18, 2026) — On Tuesday evening, President Trump reported on Truth Social that the U.S. Census Bureau, a subsidiary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, has embarked on an accounting of voters who participated in the 2020 election, which Trump has always claimed he won but after which Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president.
“The Census Bureau has begun checking the Voter Records from 2020 against their Citizenship Records,” Trump wrote shortly before 5:00 p.m. EDT. “On the first 128,000,000 Voters, the Census Bureau proves that over 24,000 Noncitizens voted illegally! The Census Bureau is going to analyze the next 32,000,000 Voters, and this number will explode. I WON THE ELECTION!…”
Indeed, an introductory post dated August 18, 2026 by the Census Bureau titled, “Noncitizen Voting in the 2020 Election, A Beginning Analysis” reports that “Nearly 160 million voters cast ballots in the 2020 general election. The Census Bureau’s beginning analysis readily determined with high confidence that over 128 million of these voter records represented citizens, and that over 24,000 of these voter records represented noncitizens at the time of the election. Over 32 million voter records remain to be analyzed.”
“Since President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Permanent Census Office Act in 1902, crime has been a focus of the Census Bureau’s population studies,” the release states. “In 1931 and 1954, later Congresses and Presidents affirmed the Census Bureau’s unique capability to compile and publish information on crime.”
The post links to a report with the same title and initial paragraphs but continuing with, “Of the voters who can be readily analyzed by the Census Bureau, over 24,000 are linked to
administrative records that indicate with high confidence noncitizen status. Table 1, below, presents initial noncitizen voters by state.”
Page 2 of the analysis reports that the highest number of non-citizen voters in 2020 cast votes in California (4,300), while in Wyoming, the number is noted as “< 15.” “Counts are rounded,” the analysis states, “for disclosure avoidance following the Census Bureau’s unweighted-count rounding rules…”
The following page reveals that of the agency’s findings to date, the vast majority of non-citizen voters were citizens of Mexico. A slightly larger number constituted “all other countries” of origin based on a lack of identification in records created by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
Canada was a distant second to Mexico in 2020 non-citizen voter origin, according to the report.
The analysis goes on to enumerate several methods by which non-citizen status is confirmed.
A 2022 Census Bureau publication on the 2020 presidential election contends:
The 2020 presidential election featured record turnout and record use of nontraditional voting methods, according to the “Voting and Registration in the Election of November 2020” report released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. The report builds on detailed tables released last year. It’s based on data from the 2020 Current Population Survey (CPS) Voting and Registration Supplement, and highlights patterns in voter turnout over time among the citizen voting-age population (CVAP).
More voters (154.6 million) turned out for the presidential election in 2020 than in 2016 (137.5 million), the largest increase between consecutive presidential elections since the inception of the CPS voting supplement in 1964.
In his post, Trump again urged Congress to pass the “Save America Act,” which would require all voters in a federal election to show proof of identification and U.S. citizenship. Earlier this year the House of Representatives passed the measure, but the Senate adjourned for the August recess without formal debate.
Trump has been roundly criticized for continuing to insist he won the 2020 presidential contest, with many who doubted the declared results labeled “election deniers.” In Fulton County, GA, Trump and 18 others were charged with crimes associated with allegedly attempting to “overturn” the Biden’s reported victory in the state.
While several charged took plea deals, the charges against Trump were dropped in late November by the prosecutor assigned to the case following the disqualification of District Attorney Fani Willis.
Late last year, Trump said evidence demonstrating the 2020 election was fraudulent would be released publicly “over the next couple of months.”
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