WATCH: Jim Acosta Gets Fact Checked in Real Time After Claiming Trump’s Popular Vote Victory ‘Did Not Occur’

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CNN anchor Jim Acosta falsely claimed President-elect Donald Trump did not win the popular vote and was immediately corrected on air Wednesday. "He is claiming a popular vote victory that did not occur," Acosta said on CNN Newsroom . "I think we heard some of that in the beginning of that speech." "Did not occur to the size he said," political director David Chalian responded. "He may very well have a popular vote victory when all the votes have been counted." "Well, he said by 7.1 million.

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