Tuesday, December 1, 2020

President Trump Should Continue To Fight For A Fair Election


There are people saying that President Donald Trump needs to concede the election and stop pointing out all the irregularities that occurred on election night. They maintain that he would be the lead Republican candidate in 2024 and could run again. There's just one problem with all of that. It's complete and utter BS. First of all, there are way too many irregularities to not warrant some serious investigations into what happened that night. Secondly, don't expect the Republican party to welcome Trump back as their candidate in 2024.

Democrats might like the idea of Trump giving up now and coming back later. It would work to their party's advantage. Consider the possibility that Trump decides he really wants to run again in four years and the Republican party blocks him. It's not that far of a stretch to think that this could happen. There are "Never Trumpers" in the party who would do what they could to rig the system against him. However, Trump has enough support that he could run as a third party candidate in 2024. I don't believe he would win the Republican nomination, but as a third party candidate he would almost guarantee a Democrat victory.

If I were to consider the next move for Trump if he ultimately loses or concedes the election, I would say he'd be better off trying to establish the Trump News Network. He's been right in the center of the storm of left-wing media attacks. He understands more than most what impact the media has had on things. He also understands that it's not going to get any better if nothing's done about it. Therefore, he could have more of an impact on politics and the information people get if he were to jump into the arena by creating a new media alternative. For that matter, he could play a part in creating alternative social media options for the people.

All of this is speculation. The fact is, Trump is fighting for a fair election right now. Millions and millions of people support him in that effort. The bottom line is there are way too many irregularities that happened during this election. There are other things that Trump is privy to behind the scenes leading up to the election. He needs to fight this all the way to the Supreme Court, because there are millions of Americans who don't trust this election. Millions of people won't just accept that Joe Biden had 11 million more votes than a very popular Barack Obama when he was elected president in 2008.

Here are some things to consider. There were more than 20 million people voting in this presidential election than in 2016. That is a huge increase, and it happened during a pandemic. I wouldn't say that Joe Biden was largely unpopular with the people, but there was lukewarm support for him at best. People will claim that Biden didn't have big support at his rallies because he didn't encourage that. However, when somebody is popular, the people will flock to see them. Cars would be lined up alongside the road with Biden banners waving proudly, even if they couldn't be at the rally itself. That didn't happen. Trump commanded huge support everywhere he went.

On election night, the trends were pointing towards the same type of Trump victory he achieved in 2016. The media covered things differently this time, going so far as to not proclaim Trump victories in certain states even though they knew he had won them. Suddenly, vote counting stopped in about a half-dozen states, four of which Trump was leading by big margins. In Pennsylvania, Trump held a 700,000 vote lead over Biden. He led by about 300,000 votes in Michigan. Vote counting simply stopped for various reasons, raising suspicions.

In the middle of the night, both Michigan and Wisconsin shifted in Biden's favor. People woke up to the news that Biden was leading both states all of a sudden. Both states were then proclaimed victories for Biden. Over the next day or two, Pennsylvania flipped, as did Georgia. Here's where it gets interesting. Up until the big shifts in those four key states, Trump was beating Biden in each state by around a 52% to 48% margin. After that, Biden was getting anywhere between 70% and 75% of the remaining votes in all of those states. Mathematically, that doesn't make a lot of sense, but that's what the media would have you believe.

There have been people willing to testify under oath regarding various irregularities in the way the votes were handled. Pole watchers were not allowed to view the vote counting. There were enough red flags to cause any rational thinking adult concern. Rather than dive in and ask serious questions, the media continues to gaslight everybody, telling them that there is no evidence of any sort of fraud. Social media did its part by either censoring or suspending people who posted what wasn't approved or running disclaimers that election fraud has been disputed.

To be honest with you, I have serious questions about the election. This feels like the most unfair and possibly even rigged election I've witnessed in my lifetime. I say that as somebody who isn't a big Trump or Biden supporter. Trump is the one who actually went through this ordeal, and he has a Constitutional right to ask questions and take legal action if need be. There is no four years from now for him. Trump knows better than to think that a path will be cleared for him to run again. He knows that he and his family will be under intense attack once he leaves office. If he doesn't fight this now, not only does he lose, but the country itself could lose. People will doubt whether we can trust an election again.

The media as well as people on social media are painting a picture of Trump ruining our Democracy. We live in a Republic, by the way. There is a difference. Trump has never said that he won't leave the White House at the appropriate time. Other formalities, such as the electoral vote, haven't occurred yet. Right now, the media is the one proclaiming Joe Biden the winner. It's not even official yet. 

What Trump is doing is no worse than what Al Gore did in 2000. Gore had a right to fight for his potential victory, and Trump has that same right. Trump isn't saying he will refuse to leave if Biden is ultimately declared the official winner. It's the media and left leaning social media people saying that. Millions of people believe he needs to fight this with everything he has. Fortunately, that's what Trump is going to do. He's not damaging anything by fighting as hard as he is. Unfortunately, the damage was done long ago.