I was truly shocked when Don Bolduc flipped after the primary and said he no longer believed the 2020 election was stolen. When Blake Masters in Arizona did the same, I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised. And yet I was.
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So many Americans believe the election was stolen—55%, including 35% of democrats! (Rasmussen)—that I truly don’t get why candidates are so easily persuaded the “only way” to win a general election is to deny their lying eyes.
I realize few candidates are nimble enough to talk about the 18,000 ballots that magically “showed up” in Arizona one day after the election yet were illegally counted.
Or the tens of thousands of absentee ballots received in Pennsylvania in excess of the number requested/mailed out. Or the many nursing homes in Wisconsin with 100% voter participation (Stalin would be impressed!), a 75+% increase over years when only the mentally competent were able to vote.
Or Michigan, where the only permitted forensic audit showed more than 60% of machine-run ballots had been “manually adjudicated” even though only 1/250,000 is permissible by federal law.
Or (my favorite) that there were only 153 million registered voters TOTAL in the entire country in 2018, so there is no possible way 155 million eligible individuals voted legally in 2020—there was barely any population increase between 2018 and 2020, and new registrations in that time period skewed heavily towards the GOP, much to the chagrin of media pundits.
So here are a few simple responses to the endless trap questions from the media or democrats—sorry, I repeat myself—without seeming to cave or throw supporters under the bus.
*Any election where watchers are not allowed or tricked into leaving is suspect.
*Any election where multiple districts stop counting at exact same time is suspect, especially when the “break” is followed by a huge dump of ballots for the candidate who was losing.
*Democrats and the media (sorry, I repeat myself again) started stealing the 2020 election with the multi-year fake Russia collusion “investigations.”
*Ditto for James Comey and his cohorts at the FBI, who knew from day one the Russia Russia Russia nonsense was a hoax hoax hoax and, later, the Hunter Biden laptop was real, real, real.
Take it from the United Nations; the election was fishy.
The UN training for fraud spotting teaches that an election is most likely fraudulent when poll watchers are not allowed, when certain jurisdictions have unrealistic turnout or excessively one-sided results and when counting stops and the loser pulls ahead when it resumes (especially after midnight). That is how we judge elections around the world—in Venezuela, in Myanmar, in Crimea, and, most recently, in the newly occupied territories of Ukraine.
There is never any proof. Asking for it is just a canard by people who know an election was stolen and want the world to move on.
During an open election, no one calls election challengers “deniers” or “threats to democracy.” Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, and many more “denied” Donald Trump won in 2016—though YouTube just censored the reel of Democrat election deniers, so that is harder this week. After the 2000 election, the New York Times and Miami Herald spent almost a year and tens of thousands of dollars counting and recounting and recounting the Florida ballots again and again and again, trying to show Al Gore had actually won. This time? Nah, we’re good. Only a democracy killer would question an election!
This brings me to Kari Lake, also in Arizona, who had the best response I’ve seen to a “big lie” question. Without batting an eyelid, she turned the question on the reporter—“Do you believe 81 million Americans voted for Joe Biden?” The silence that followed was breathtaking. Because the dirty little secret we’re not supposed to get is that they all know the 2020 election was riddled with fraud. The media know it, and the Dems know it. Even some RINOs know it, though perhaps they just choose to see nothing.
That’s why they all work so hard to intimidate us, to get us to shut up about it. To say our eyes lied. They hope if the actual “big lie” is repeated often enough, that 81 million live people voted for a man who couldn’t fill a parking lot even with people sitting ten feet apart, we’ll all believe it eventually. Thankfully it’s not working, at least not yet—and if 55% of Americans are willing to tell a pollster they believe fraud affected the 2020 outcome, we know the real number is much higher.
If only more of our candidates could see that, perhaps they’d be more willing to channel Kari Lake and stand their ground because this must never be allowed to happen again.
