Sunday, November 22, 2020

The Media Has Done A Poor Job With Their Post-Election Coverage

After the media declared Joe Biden the President of the United States, they have buried any controversy regarding the election. The reports coming in from across the country were ignored. The irregularities in the way the election occurred have not been significantly discussed and explained. Social media got into the act. Anytime somebody challenges the election results or reports something on the matter, they tag that post by saying the claim has been disputed. However, they haven't significantly shown how it's been disputed.


In December, the electors will vote to determine who the President Elect officially is. Therefore, it doesn't really matter how many times Joe Biden comes out in front of a backdrop that proclaims him to be the President Elect. He's not officially the President Elect until the electors vote him in. This is being done for optics. The media and Biden know fully well that the election is being challenged. They also know that as one of the candidates in the election, current President Donald Trump is within his rights to do so.

The poor media coverage of this situation is part of the problem. The media and politicians talk about the divide in this country. We are a divided nation, and it didn't happen overnight. It's been building up for the past few years and can probably be traced back to when George Bush Jr was President. For the over 73 million people who voted for Trump, there are significant questions that the media won't even touch. Telling everybody that they need to unite behind Biden isn't going to do it without answering some of these questions. Secondly, telling these people that they are racists while telling them that everybody needs to unite will only keep the divide going.

The election night itself sets off so many red flags. Even without all of the evidence coming in, it still gives off the appearance of being a rigged election. At about the time when a winner is usually declared, votes stopped being counted in several states. At that point, Donald Trump was the leader, and he held significant leads in several swing states. While Trump gave a speech discussing his confusion over what was going on, a somewhat confident Biden told supporters he expected he would win. Bear in mind, he was telling people he expected to win Pennsylvania when he was trailing by 700,000 votes that night. He was trailing in a few states by 100,000 votes or more.

In the early morning hours the next day, the state of Michigan and Wisconsin both flipped in favor of Biden. Over the next few days, both Pennsylvania and Georgia would turn in Biden's favor. The counting had stopped in all four states on election night as well as in Arizona and Nevada, where Biden was leading, and North Carolina, where Trump was leading. The fact that Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia flipped in the way they did has millions of voters crying foul, and Trump isn't just sitting back and accepting it.

On November 19th, Trump's lawyers gave a press conference. They outlined their intent to challenge the results. They gave a summary of their case without laying out all of their evidence. They pointed out that this case won't be tried in the court of public opinion, but rather the court of law. Interestingly enough, several of the media outlets chose not to show the press conference. While the media hailed Al Gore when he challenged the election results in 2000, they're treating Trump as if he has no right to do so and is disenfranchising the voters. The media is doing a disservice to the people.

It's obvious that Trump intends to take this case to the highest court in the country if need be. People want answers. They want to know why the election had so many problems. They want to know why there were so many issues with vote counting. They want to know how the four states could flip as dramatically as they did. They don't want these questions dismissed as some conspiracy theory. 

If the media continues to gaslight everybody who has questions, it will only divide the people even further. If Biden has won, it would be in everybody's best interest if we had a proper explanation as to what was really happened. If Trump somehow overturns this election, we have bigger issues that I won't even touch here. As this all plays out, we're going to come upon the day when either Biden or Trump is seated as President. Hopefully, we can begin the process of healing the divide in this country, but that will take effort.