Ever since the 2020 election, we’ve had to put up with whining Trumpists and their stolen (or “STOLLEN” as Trump repeatedly said) election crap. Never mind that fifty different judges ruled against them, they just trotted out the same bogus claims again, and again, and again.
And since Tuesday’s election, it’s all started up again, but this time from Harris supporters.
Mostly because the numbers from the popular vote totals are significantly lower for 2024 than they were for 2020. Something like 15 million fewer votes.
Just a small sampling of what I’ve seen on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/thejackhopkins/status/1854281154293350838
- thejackhopkins
https://twitter.com/PrincessBravato/status/1854249505379774803
- PrincessBravato
https://twitter.com/SassiestMinx/status/1854306661713772887
- SassiestMinx
I’ve seen all kinds of anecdotal evidence reported, often about mail-in ballots not having been recorded in Pennsylvania or Michigan. And, sure, every Presidential election is going to have some irregularities/discrepencies. But, realistically, how often are those discrepancies, in the aggregate, going to change the outcome?
It’s easy to point to real (or imagined) voting irregularities that might have shifted things one way or the other in a small election. A mistake or even blatant corruption by an election judge in one precinct might change the result in the race for a state representative. But to alter the results on a national scale would require a deep-reaching conspiracy.
As bogus as the Trumpist canard about 2020 was, the nascent claims about 2024 are also suspect. Several of the swing states that ended up in Trump’s column have Democratic Secretaries of State and/or Governors. Were they somehow part of a scheme to fraudulently install Trump in the White House?
Mehdi Hasan has a reality check for these questions:
https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1854303050493468706
- mehdirhasan
Harris lost the election but there are many plausible reasons for it that have nothing to do with election fraud. It may just be that Trump’s version of fascism is more popular than a lot of people want to believe. Or millions of people were simply more comfortable filling in an oval for a demented narcissistic adjudicated rapist than for an intelligent Black woman. There are many more simple straightforward reasons for the election results other than the complexities that would be needed for a stolen election.
We’ve had to listen to bogus Trumpist canards about 2020 for four long years. I for one am in no mood to put up with another four years of assertions that the 2024 election was stolen. Just because Trumpists whined for years doesn’t mean that the center-left should follow suit.
https://twitter.com/SykesCharlie/status/1854154946385711591
- SykesCharlie
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