Do you believe that Joe Biden received 10 million more votes than Obama while winning 200 hundred fewer counties?
Do you believe Joe Biden under performed everyplace in the country except in the very battleground states he needed to win? Battlground states where he out performed past Democrats.
I don't find that particularly unbelievable - this election turned out almost exactly how I expected (I thought Trump would win GA pretty easily though). Lots of people love Trump, lots of people hate Trump and they are generally pretty geographically segregated - it's discussed regularly here. Political polarization was increasing before Trump and it only accelerated after he was elected. Trump does get credit for driving record turnout.
Trump, in particular, spent four years inflaming his critics’ loathing of him. He made the infuriating of liberals (“owning the libs,” in Internet-speak) central to his brand. Should we be surprised that liberals turned out in droves, if not to support Biden, then simply to stop being infuriated by Trump?
Do you believe that it is normal for counting to stop across multiple states in the middle of the night and then when counting resumes every one of those states flipped from one candidate leading to the other candidate?
There must have been a hundred columns written
before the election warning people not to put too much stock in the early count
"mirage" this year. It's not "normal" because this wasn't a normal year, but it was easily predicted because there is a simple, non fraudulent, explanation.
In some states, the legislatures (mostly republican) did nothing to enable earlier counting of the unprecedented number of absentee ballots and as a result there was a pause in
reporting results when they had completed in-person voting but not counting absentee ballots. Once they had the absentee votes counted (which favored Biden, again not surprising or hard to explain) those were reported. It wasn't unique to states that Biden won.
For example, 90 minutes after polls closed in Iowa, North Carolina and Ohio, Biden looked competitive in these three states — he even led in North Carolina and Ohio. But that changed as officials reported more results, and Trump wound up carrying all three states. It wasn’t just battleground states where this happened either. Deeply Republican states like Kentucky experienced this same “red shift” in their vote margins because of the order in which votes happened to be reported — it just didn’t affect who won them because they were already so Republican-leaning.
I saw this myself in person and it didn't require any fraud to explain. Polls closed at 8pm and results from those were all pretty easy to tally & report - the ballots were already put through the machines and any issues had been correct on the spot, so it was just a matter of downloading the counts and doing some verification. We were still processing absentee ballots at 11:30pm when I called it quits and others worked for at least another 4 hours. It's just a slow process and those ballots are going to be reported last because they have to be verified and opened and run through the machines, not to mention some ballot recreation for military/overseas that send non-standard ballots, and then those counts can
finally be reported.
We are an imperfect country run by imperfect people and our elections are no different. There certainly were shenanigans and likely some fraud that, as always, needs to be investigated and prosecuted. However, every mistake is not evidence of a conspiracy and unofficial results reported in real time are labelled
unofficial for a reason. Counting and especially reporting in this manner is not great, I do think there are plenty of things to fix, but it is miles away from being
proof of fraud. What happened to "extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof"?
Continue to put your head in the sand and refuse to acknowledge the irregularities and statistical improbabilities.
Donald Trump's 2016 election was a statistical improbability, we not only accepted it but mocked those who didn't.