Which election was rigged?
Poor Donald Trump. He has never been in an “un-rigged” election.
In October 2016, a few days before FBI Director Comey plunged that email dagger into the heart of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, Donald Trump complained, without evidence, that the election was rigged. In favor of whom, he did not specify, perhaps he was covering all eventualities. He won with the assistance of Comey’s naiveté at best, or collusion at worst; not to mention with a little help from his Russian comrades. That seems like evidence to me.
Trump boasted that it was the “biggest electoral college landslide in the country’s history”. In truth of the almost 50 presidential election to date, 2016 and 2020 were tied in terms of winning electoral vote percentage at about 46th worst. Let’s not forget his rant about the approximate 3 thousand “illegal” popular votes in my home state of New Hampshire or the approximate 3 million “illegal” votes in California.
This year he had the same rigged complaint, again, without evidence. It’s very interesting that he ignores the victories of many of his down ticket comrades who were much more successful than he. They were on the same ballot. Why weren’t their votes stolen, lost or destroyed? What was rigged? Maybe the rigging was of Trump’s own doing as he drove many of his supporters away from mail-in voting toward riskier in person voting? We’ll never know. But what we do know is that Joe Biden’s un-rigged victory tied Trump’s 2016 “landslide” victory of 306 votes in the electoral college.
According to the Washington Post only 27, of the hundreds of Republican members of Congress have recognized President-elect Biden’s victory or, more importantly, Trump’s loss. He wants their names! 6 of the unfaithful 27 felt insulated from him since they were not seeking re-election.
This time Trump must be too embarrassed to mention his popular vote loss. Indeed, Mr. Biden’s 81.2 million was the largest popular vote in US history. And we know who followed more than 7 million votes behind.