This is almost 100% attributed to Covid. People had more options than ever to early vote in person, mail in, etc.
It’s not like Trump was significantly more popular than he was in 2016 either. And his vote totals shot way up.
This is only “surprising” because it’s the first time it had happened. Obama in 08 would likely have crushed the total Biden got if he had the same conditions. Hell Trump 2016 might have had more votes than Trump 2020 in the same conditions.
I don’t even see why people are SURPRISED that Biden won. Weren’t all of us, regardless of which side we were on, all already saying the probability was in his favor at the start of this thread?
The Korean elections resulted in a landslide for the incumbent government because they handled the COVID situation well at the time.
The election in Singapore led to the Ruling Party getting their worst results in their entire history with a loss of 10 points because they fucked up in their response to the virus. And this party had been in power for 55 YEARS.
Why is it any surprise that Trump lost just from his response to the virus alone? With the benefit of hindsight and the stats we now have such as voting demographics, I’m not even bothering to take his lacklustre campaign into consideration here.
I have no idea. You had a really hard time coming to grips with all the other debunked right wing conspiracy theories so far. Are the people who are telling you the election was secure that work under the Trump administration making it all up? Are the Republican leaders in states saying no fraud making it up?
Is it really all explained away by Soros! Deep state! Fake news! Swamp!
What do you think when Trump posts something like more votes took place in Detroit than people who lived there?
Isn’t it possible that the guy who says everyone else is lying trust me is actually the one lying? And not everyone else?
Besides you should really be paying attention to what these people say in court. Notice Rudy’s press conference today talking about fraud? Compare that with what he said in front of a judge Tuesday. Even as insane as Rudy is he knows the difference in flailing like a maniac on TV and lying in court.
Trump’s a cry baby narcissist and it will make him feel better if he can say it was stolen. That’s why he said it months before the election.
More importantly he can grift his followers and remain popular with them politically. A one term loser might get kicked to the curb and people move on. But a one term President who can convince his followers who haven’t needed evidence to believe all sorts of things has got something.
He’s got power and the ability to continue the grift for years and it keeps his supporters worshipping him which he loves.
He would be doing this even if he lost every state. The margin isn’t important. The message “I’m a winner who doesn’t lose” is what needs protected.
It’s why he started protecting it just in case he lost.
In what way? He has broke idiots like you who support him? That whole argument of yours is stupid. Kim Kardashian is more successful than a fireman who saves a child’s life. Or the person who works on coming up with the cure for cancer. Or an astronaut. Is that how it works?
I would argue that I am more successful in that he failed at his dream of being a comedian whereas I have been achieving the things I want to achieve.
I wouldn’t say it’s quite that simple as what we ran on but I won’t fight you. Also laughable to me that a person who put his family into leadership positions and sent taxpayers the bill for trips to his businesses over and over is the guy to drain the swamp. But I feel like we have had that debate already.
Right now the “broken system” he is trying to fix is people having a right to choose their leaders by voting.
They aren’t even really trying to hide it anymore. They don’t like the results of the election and so they want to change the rules so Trump can stay in power.
If this was Obama this entire forum would be losing their shit and screaming about the end of America and calling it a coup. But it’s Trump so most people just shrug like well yeah this is what he does.
Shapiro and O’Reilly are as “far right” as I go, and all the cases of voter fraud that they’ve cited are “minor” in scale (not in gravity of course), which they admit.
I love the quote from the (Trump appointed) judge:
“It is well established that garden-variety election disputes do not rise to the level of a constitutional deprivation,” Judge Steven D. Grimberg ruled. “The fact that his candidate didn’t win doesn’t rise to the level of harm.”
Judge Grimberg was appointed by the president in 2019.