[AGL] did Biden really win?

[Michael Eisenstadt]

I was disappointed that Trump did not win re-election. Die-hard 
pro-Trumpers immediately cried foul alleging massive fraud. As 
uninformed as the average 'Merican, I didn't know what to believe. The 
lawsuits that the Trump party have initiated have gone nowhere. So far 
as I can tell, no smoking gun has been revealed to prove /massive
/fraud that changed the outcome. No one denies that petty fraud was 
committed as that is in the long-time tradition of American elections. 
AG Burr reported to Trump that no evidence of fraud substantial enough 
to affect the election had been discovered by the Justice Dept.

However there are a number of indices that something is rotten in the 
state of Denmark to quote the Bard in regard to this election. The 
following essay by Peter D'Abrosca marshalls a number of statistics that 
make the results of this election literally impossible.

Here is what he wrote -

Over the past month, thousands of detailed voter fraud claims have 
stemmed from the contested November 3 presidential election.

Americans are discussing the intricacies of software algorithms used by 
the now-infamous Dominion Voting Systems. There has been scrutiny of the 
insecure chain of custody of mail-in ballots and the signature 
verification process for those ballots. In several cases, the 
poll-watching that normally regulates vote tallying appears to have 
excluded Republicans. There’s plenty of evidence that Joe Biden secured 
the reliably Democratic necromancers’ union vote, and that unregistered 
voters and felons voted illegally. Postal workers have come forward 
claiming they were told to backdate ballots if ballots were postmarked 
after Election Day.

But while many complex pieces of evidence outlined in sworn affidavits 
and presented by lawyers are certainly necessary for the court battles 
that lie ahead, the court of public opinion is perhaps a more important 
battleground.

If the public at large thinks that Republican claims of voter fraud are, 
in the parlance of our times, malarkey, the courts will be less likely 
to hear Republicans’ cases or rule in Republicans’ favor. Bucking the 
public sentiment is not easy, even for judges who have sworn to remain 
impartial and rule in a manner consistent with facts.

President Trump senses this. It’s why hedescribed 
<https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-11-29/trump-gives-first-interview-since-election>the 
need for a “brave judge, or justice” to hear his cases.

So instead of getting lost in the minutia, it might work in Republicans’ 
favor, especially in the court of public opinion, to harp on the /prima 
facie/case for voter fraud.

On that front, the obvious place to start is with Joe Biden’s vote 
total—supposedly a whopping 80 million. It’s a staggering number and one 
that could be called “unbelievable,” in the true sense of that word.

That is close to 15 million more votes than Hillary Clinton received in 
2016.

Was Joe Biden, whose handful of campaign events featured around 12 or so 
people trapped in COVID circles, or a few parked cars honking their 
horns, inspiring enough to garner 15 million more voters than Hillary? 
Was he a masterful debater who significantly outperformed Clinton on 
that national stage? Could he put two sentences together without getting 
confused? Does he know what planet he’s on? Probably not.

By contrast, President Trump spearheaded an outright revolution against 
the political class in 2016, invigorating millions to attend his rallies 
and sparking a movement that—no matter the outcome of the 2020 race—will 
be a force in American politics for decades to come. The energy and 
enthusiasm of the original Trump campaign are unmatched in modern 
political history. Still, in 2016, he only outperformed Mitt Romney’s 
2012 vote total by about two million votes.

Worth noting, Joe Biden also surpassed Barack Obama’s 2008 vote total of 
69 million by about 11 million votes. Even Democrats and the media (but 
I repeat myself) seem unwilling to argue that Joe Biden was a more 
exciting or inspiring candidate than his top-of-the-ticket running mate.

Both the improbable vote totals and the candidates’ enthusiasm gap serve 
as clear-cut, /prima facie/evidence of fraud.

Biden’s otherworldly 80 million votes are being explained away as hatred 
for President Trump. The media will have you believe that Americans were 
spurred into action, not to vote /for/Joe Biden, but to vote 
/against/the Bad Orange Man. President Trump, they say, is such a 
loathsome figure that a record number of Americans had no choice but to 
vote against him.

But that’s not really true.

President Trump garnered 74 million votes this year. That’s about 11 
million more than he won in 2016. While President Trump’s popularity 
significantly and demonstrably increased among the voting populace, a 
record-breaking number of people also voted against him? That assertion 
is ridiculous on its face.

Here’s more /prima facie/evidence of fraud from pollster Richard Baris 
of Big Data Poll.

“Biden underperformed Hillary Clinton in every major metro area around 
the country, save for Milwaukee, Detroit, Atlanta, and Philadelphia,” 
Barissaid 
<https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2020/11/14/democracy-institute-pollster-yes-i-think-this-election-was-stolen-n2579970>.

Biden also underperformed Clinton in New York City by a wide margin, and 
the only exception to Baris’ rule was Los Angeles, where Biden received 
about 600,000 more votes than Clinton did in 2016. The pair virtually 
tied in Chicago.

But in all of the major cities in the four most important swing states, 
Joe Biden managed to crush Hillary Clinton (a typo for Donald Trump?). 
How convenient.

And what about those down-ballot races? We were promised a Blue Wave by 
Democrats, and in 2018 a Red Wave by Republicans. Each side was supposed 
to mop the floor with the other, up and down the ballot. That’s not what 
happened.

Somehow, Joe Biden’s supposed 80 million vote insurgency didn’t manage 
to matriculate to Democrats down-ballot. In such polarizing times, that 
doesn’t add up.

In fact, in 2018, when Donald Trump was /not/at the top of the ballot, 
Republicans lost 40 seats in the House. In 2020, when Donald Trump 
/was/at the top of the ballot, they gained 12 House seats, suggesting 
that his presence on the ballot galvanized Republicans.

And those hundreds of sworn affidavits mentioned above, each of which 
testifies under penalty of perjury to some kind of voting irregularity? 
Those affidavits themselves are /prima facie/evidence of voter fraud.

Unless hundreds of Americans from every corner of the country have 
conspired to lie under oath on behalf of President Trump, risking their 
liberty to cheat the Democrats out of victory, the sheer number of 
documented irregularities cannot be ignored. If these claims are indeed 
fabricated, they would comprise the single largest conspiracy in the 
history of American electoral politics.

Republicans are ready to bring detailed evidence of voter fraud to 
court. That’s great.

But first, they must win in the court of public opinion by bull horning 
the glaring, /prima facie/irregularities of the 2020 election cycle for 
the entire nation to see.

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