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They only reason why this ridiculous conversation about electoral fraud is running is because Donald Trump decided from the beginning of his run that the only way he could lose was by electoral fraud. He ran that line in 2016 but of course he won. So there couldn't have been fraud could there ?
In 2020 he sowed the seeds of "electoral fraud" from the start of his campaign. This was the "only way he was going to lose". He watered those seeds at every opportunity creating the mindset amongst supporters that "if he lost it was all rigged".
The election came. Trump (not necessarily the Republican Party ) suffered a clear loss. The margins in all the seats are far too big to overcome with minor electoral vote issues. So Donald announced that this apparent loss meant the election was a fraud and demanded that his followers find the evidence that would back up this new reality. Naturally every true Trump supporter found/created any possible story that could undermine the results. Dead voters, missing ballots, found ballots, computers that would switch votes - whatever it took.
Most of these stories have been identified as completely false. To date there has been no evidence for widespread fraud of the sort that could impact the current voter margins.
What I found interesting was the Georgian Secretary of State response to the pressure from Trump to roll over on the votes.
'Integrity still matters': the unlikely Republican standing up to Trump's voter fraud lies
The Georgia secretary of state tells the Guardian he’s received death threats for pushing back against the president’s claims
...“I’m a conservative Republican. Yes, I wanted President Trump to win. But as secretary of state we have to do our job,” he said in an interview with the Guardian. “I’m gonna walk that fine, straight, line with integrity. I think that integrity still matters.”
He added there were 24,000 Republicans who voted by mail in Georgia’s primary, but did not turn out to vote in November. Those voters didn’t vote again in November, Raffensperger suggested, because Trump railed against voting by mail.
“Voters listened to the president, they didn’t show up,” he said. “That would have been a 10,000 person cushion that President Trump would have had if those folks would have come back out. They just stayed at home.”
“Democrats really strongly pushed it,” he added. “I hope that, as a Republican, our party becomes very active.
In 2020 he sowed the seeds of "electoral fraud" from the start of his campaign. This was the "only way he was going to lose". He watered those seeds at every opportunity creating the mindset amongst supporters that "if he lost it was all rigged".
The election came. Trump (not necessarily the Republican Party ) suffered a clear loss. The margins in all the seats are far too big to overcome with minor electoral vote issues. So Donald announced that this apparent loss meant the election was a fraud and demanded that his followers find the evidence that would back up this new reality. Naturally every true Trump supporter found/created any possible story that could undermine the results. Dead voters, missing ballots, found ballots, computers that would switch votes - whatever it took.
Most of these stories have been identified as completely false. To date there has been no evidence for widespread fraud of the sort that could impact the current voter margins.
What I found interesting was the Georgian Secretary of State response to the pressure from Trump to roll over on the votes.
'Integrity still matters': the unlikely Republican standing up to Trump's voter fraud lies
The Georgia secretary of state tells the Guardian he’s received death threats for pushing back against the president’s claims
...“I’m a conservative Republican. Yes, I wanted President Trump to win. But as secretary of state we have to do our job,” he said in an interview with the Guardian. “I’m gonna walk that fine, straight, line with integrity. I think that integrity still matters.”
He added there were 24,000 Republicans who voted by mail in Georgia’s primary, but did not turn out to vote in November. Those voters didn’t vote again in November, Raffensperger suggested, because Trump railed against voting by mail.
“Voters listened to the president, they didn’t show up,” he said. “That would have been a 10,000 person cushion that President Trump would have had if those folks would have come back out. They just stayed at home.”
“Democrats really strongly pushed it,” he added. “I hope that, as a Republican, our party becomes very active.
'Integrity still matters': the unlikely Republican standing up to Trump's voter fraud lies
The Georgia secretary of state tells the Guardian he’s received death threats for pushing back against the president’s claims