Someday I hope to find the time to research the many differences between the 2020 general election and previous presidential election years.
I believe that, because of the fear of COVID, there were a couple big differences in 2020, differences which may have tipped the results in several states. One big difference was the severe limitation on presidential campaign rallies, which I believe hurt Trump far more than it did Biden. Biden is a lackluster, low-energy campaigner. Trump, on the other hand, LOVES campaign rallies. They are his milieu. He ad libs. He makes faces. He enjoys the crowd. And, believe it or not, he is often quite funny in front of a live audience.
Any news media telling the truth in comparing a Trump rally to a Biden rally would probably have pointed out how good a performer Trump is on the stump and how he revs up his audience. Biden can’t compare to Trump at all as a performance artist. And Trump is much more of a draw for bringing out his supporters in a live audience than is Biden. Those comparisons – of audience size and enthusiasm and candidate performance on the stump – would have helped Trump in the 2020 general election. But concerns about the spread of COVID either as a legitimate public health reason or as a political cover, formed the basis for shutting down many campaign rallies in 2020, which, I’m sure, hurt Trump’s electoral chances far more than it did Biden’s.
In normal elections, most people vote in-person. The 2020 election boosted mail-in voting in a massive way, supposedly because of COVID. I don’t know if there was election fraud committed in the absentee ballot process in 2020, but I do believe that election fraud, through “ballot harvesting,” among other methods, is much easier to organize and implement with absentee ballots than with in-person voting.
And let’s not forget the way the mainstream media downplayed and tried to explain away the Hunter Biden laptop story and any other unsavory aspects of Hunter’s mixing of business and Biden family politics for personal profit. That story, if had not been shut down by Facebook, Twitter, and many mainstream media outlets, might actually have seriously damaged Biden’s electoral chances.
Now, I don’t know if any of these unusual facets of the 2020 election resulted in an illegitimate outcome. But I do think that Democrats in general and the Biden-backing media in particular are much too willing to label any questioning of the legitimacy of the unique aspects of the 2020 election as delusional.
Personally, I think that the conduct of a fair election is as important as the election’s outcome. Trust in our electoral process is critical to democratic governance. So it’s crucial that all the allegations of election-fixing, ballot-stuffing, voter suppression, electoral manipulation, and the like – whether those allegations are made by Democrats, Republicans, or others – are taken seriously and not dismissed out-of-hand as partisan gimmicks.