No matter how the 2020 election is finally decided, it will be tainted by suspicion.
Democrats and the media are celebrating now because they believe Biden won. If the race were called for Trump however, they would say it was illegitimate.
If the race ends up going to Biden, the same thing will happen.
According to a new poll, a majority of Republicans believe the election was rigged.
Reuters reports:
Half of Republicans say Biden won because of a ‘rigged’ election: Reuters/Ipsos poll
About half of all Republicans believe President Donald Trump “rightfully won” the U.S. election but that it was stolen from him by widespread voter fraud that favored Democratic President-elect Joe Biden, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll.
The Nov. 13-17 opinion poll showed that Trump’s open defiance of Biden’s victory in both the popular vote and Electoral College appears to be affecting the public’s confidence in American democracy, especially among Republicans.
Altogether, 73% of those polled agreed that Biden won the election while 5% thought Trump won. But when asked specifically whether Biden had “rightfully won,” Republicans showed they were suspicious about how Biden’s victory was obtained.
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Fifty-two percent of Republicans said that Trump “rightfully won,” while only 29% said that Biden had rightfully won.
As usual, this poll seems off. The 50 percent cited in the title seems awfully low.
This is the key finding:
Asked why, Republicans were much more concerned than others that state vote counters had tipped the result toward Biden: 68% of Republicans said they were concerned that the election was “rigged,” while only 16% of Democrats and one-third of independents were similarly worried.
When it comes to rigging the election, Daniel Greenfield of Frontpage Mag has an interesting point:
Every state but one that had a Democrat acting as secretary of state was called for Biden.
Michigan, Arizona, and Colorado were among the key battleground targets in 2018. The Democrats didn’t get all the seats they wanted. After making Deidre DeJear, an Obama staffer endorsed by him, into a star, bringing top Democrats to campaign with her, and outspending Republicans, 3 to 1, her Republican opponent still decisively won Iowa. DeJear and the Democrats were coming after Iowa’s Voter ID measures, but they failed. In Ohio, Democrats plowed over $2 million into Kathleen Clyde’s campaign and outspent her Republican opponent 5 to 1. And still lost. But even without Ohio and Iowa, the Democrats had built an election map.
Where the Democrats could not secure the office, as in Nevada, they used the pandemic as a pretext for rigging the election. In Nevada, Governor Sisolak rejected a push by Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske requiring the registration of ballot harvesters, after ramming through a bill requiring universal mail-in ballots and legalizing harvesting. But having control of the actual office was still crucial in the battleground states that Democrats were counting on in 2020.
Republicans need to learn from this, and fast.
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