The 2020 election wasn't "rigged"

also an article about how trump himself manipulates media https://www.vox.com/mischiefs-of-faction/2016/9/26/13061494/trump-media-manipulation - drlebronski

The 2020 election wasn't "rigged"

The media 'hated Trump, for obvious reasons, the entire left did, 'always with the Late Night Talk Shows, the hosts, the straight criticism and disdain, and their clear it's not funny, I'm serious about how much of a problem this guy is to me.

Ah yes, one man, standing alone against the corrupt giant of media conglomerate. . . I'm joking.

I would expect the editors of a school newspaper, even for a private, conservative college with only 1500 undergrads, to know more about journalistic ethics than to suppose that endorsement=subjective bias in reporting. - oromagi

The overwhelming majority of Americans hated Trump- always have.  Probably the best known candidate to ever run for  the office and easily the most despised. - oromagi

How did the Republican party, rig the election?

•  Trump solicited foreign interference in the 2020 U.S. presidential election to help his re-election bid, and then obstructed the inquiry itself by telling his administration officials to ignore subpoenas for documents and testimony. A 2019 impeachment inquiry reported that Trump withheld military aid and an invitation to the White House to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in order to influence Ukraine to announce an investigation into Trump's political opponent Joe Biden and to promote a discredited conspiracy theory that Ukraine, not Russia, was behind interference in the 2016 presidential election.
  
• Trump's own Director of National Intelligence advised:  
  

• "We assess that Russian President Putin authorized, and a range of Russian government organizations conducted, influence operations aimed at denigrating President Biden’s candidacy and the Democratic Party, supporting former President Trump, undermining public confidence in the electoral process, and exacerbating sociopolitical divisions in the US. Unlike in 2016, we did not see persistent Russian  cyber efforts to gain access to election infrastructure. …
  
• A key element of Moscow’s strategy this election cycle was its use of proxies linked to Russian intelligence to push influence narratives — including misleading or unsubstantiated allegations against President Biden — to US media organizations, US officials, and prominent US individuals, including some close to former President Trump and his administration."
  

• The US Supreme Court and Republicans in the State Legislature of Wisconsin rebuffed Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers's request to move the state's spring elections to June. As a result, the elections, which included a presidential primary, went ahead on April 7 as planned.
  
• Trump and his campaign strongly opposed mail-in voting in spite of the ongoing pandemic emergency, claiming that it would cause widespread voter fraud, a belief which had already been thoroughly  debunked by the administration own election experts.  "We'll see what happens, Trump said, "Get rid of the ballots and you'll have a very peaceful – there won't be a transfer, frankly. There will be a continuation."
  
• In other words, Republicans tried to force election venues into conditions that violated the administration's own public sanitation and quarantine recommendations, believing that fear of infection would drive down voter turnout to Republican's benefit.
  
• During the campaign Trump repeatedly promised to refuse to recognize the outcome of the election if he was defeated; Trump falsely suggested that the election would be rigged against him.  Trump refused to answer whether he would accept the results.   Trump repeatedly refused to commit to a peaceful transition of power after the election.
  
• Trump repeatedly stated that he hoped that the Supreme Court would (unconstitutionally) decide the election and that he wanted a conservative majority in case of an election dispute.
  
• To this end, Republicans expedited the October nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Court in spirt of hypocritically and vehemently refusing a February nomination before the previous election.
  
• Trump repeatedly stated that the election should be unconstitutionally postponed or skipped.
  
• Trump appointed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy  introduced a host of new measures deigned to slow and break the mail-in voting process,  including banning overtime and extra trips to deliver mail,  and dismantling and removing hundreds of high-speed mail sorting machines from postal centers in Democratic strongholds.  Postal delivery still hasn't recovered from these interferences.
  
• 7% of all ballots that arrived in postal facilities before the election went uncounted because of Post Office delays.
  
• Mail-in ballots overwhelming favored Biden.
  
• Trump has refused to nominate any new members to the Federal Election Commission, the division of Govt. charged with enforcing fair elections and campaign financing rules. 
  
• Simultaneously, Republicans submitted hundreds legal of lawsuits  relating to the election had been filed.   About 250 of these had to do with the mechanics of voting in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic.
  
• That is, Trump manufactured a backlog of complaints while also guaranteeing that backlog could not be addressed by Federal means- forcing suits into State courts where GOP lawyers hoped to create the illusion of wrong-doing.
  
• When called on to denounce political intimidation by White Supremacists during a presidential  debate, Trump told White Supremacists to "stand by."
  
• After the election, Trump ominously fired the Sec. of Defense and a number of key DoD and replaced them with loyal inner party members- a clear attempt to seek military alternatives.
  
• After Nov. 10th, Trump's cabinet and personal lawyers collectively advised Trump that all legal remedies had been expended and that all further attempts to change the election's outcome would be illegal and therefore treason.
  
• Trump began firing officials for confirming the election results or initiating procedures for the orderly transfer of power.
  
• Trump ordered officials to submit budgets for 2022 and fired officials who complained that was a waste of taxpayer money.
  
• Republicans filed 86 lawsuits questioning the outcome of the Presidential (most after Trump had been advised that they could not change the election's outcome).  Most of which depended on wildly unstained conspiracy theories, most of which originated with QAnon.  QAnon's website, 8kun, had been moved to Russian networks in October to protect its owners from US and Filipino criminal investigations.
  

• "Nearly all the suits were dismissed or dropped due to lack of evidence.  Judges, lawyers, and other observers described the suits as "frivolous" and "without merit".  In one instance, the Trump campaign and other groups seeking his reelection collectively lost multiple cases in six states on a single day.  Only one ruling was initially in Trump's favor: the timing within which first-time Pennsylvania voters must provide proper identification if they wanted to “cure” their ballots. This ruling affected very few votes,  and it was later overturned by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court."
  
• On March 22, 2021, lawyers for [Trump's lead election lawyer, Sidney Powell, who was responsible for filing most of these lawsuits]  argued that "no reasonable person would conclude that the statements by Powell about the 2020 election were truly statements of fact". Instead, “it was clear to reasonable persons that Powell’s claims were her opinions and legal theories"
  

• That is, in court, Trump's own lawyers have since argued that Trump's fraud claims were obviously fictional.
  
• Trump and other prominent Republicans illegally pressured Republican campaign officials in at least 4 states, GA, MI, AZ, and PA to delay certification past the deadline, decertify legal votes, and manufacture non-existent.
  
• In at least one state, WI, Trump supporters physically interrupted and delayed vote counts.
  
•  Trump supporters threatened election officials, their staff, and families  in at least 8 states including WI, PA, MI, NV, and AZ via emails, telephone calls and letters.
  
• Many communications included death threats.
  
• Multiple election officials required police protection and/or family relocation
  
• Trump attorney Joseph diGenova argued on Fox News that Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Chris Kreb should be taken out and shot for certifying the election.
  
• The AZ Republican Party repeatedly tweeted that Republicans needed "die for" and "give their life" to protect Donald Trump's incumbency
  
• Republican Congressmen filed a lawsuit requesting an unconstitutional finding by a Federal Judge that the Vice President maintained sole authority to certify the election.
  
• Trump unconstitutionally ordered AG Barr to request from SCOTUS an injunction delaying the certification of the election.  When the AG refused, Trump fired Barr and ordered the same from acting AG Rosen who likewise refused.
  
• Beginning in January, Trump asked, then demanded, then ordered Vice President Pence, both in public and in private,  to overturn the election results and declare Trump-Pence the winners of the election.
  
• LIz Cheney:
  

• "On January 6, 2021 a violent mob attacked the United States Capitol to obstruct the process of our democracy and stop the counting of presidential electoral votes. This insurrection caused injury, death and destruction in the most sacred space in our Republic.  The President of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack. Everything that followed was his doing. None of this would have happened without the President. The President could have immediately and forcefully intervened to stop the violence. He did not. There has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution."
  

• Trump supporters interrupted and explicitly called for the end of the constitutionally mandated  election certification
  
• Insurrectionist explicitly demanded the death of the Vice President and the Speaker of the House (2nd and 3rd in power).  
  
• Trump's lawyer Giuliani was recorded pressuring Republican Senators to illegally postpone their constitutional mandated responsibility:
  

• "we need you, our Republican friends, to try to just slow it down ... So if you could object to every state and, along with a congressman, get a hearing for every state, I know we would delay you a lot, but it would give us the opportunity to get the legislators who are very, very close to pulling their vote ... they have written letters asking that you guys adjourn and send them back the questionable ones and they'll fix them up"
  

• After the insurrection, 7 GOP Senators and 138 Republican House members objected to certifying AZ and PA without presenting any substantive cause.
  
• Trump conceded the election on Jan 7th but has since reneged on that concession on dozens of occasions, suggesting the election was stolen, unconstitutionally claiming that he is the rightful President, and predicting an re-instatement by late Summer.
  
• AZ State Senators illegally surrendered custody of all 2020 Maricopa County ballots to an ad-hoc rag-tag of QAnon conspiracy theorists with Trump's full throated approval, anticipating a manufactured counterclaim in AZ.
  
• Multiple Republicans continue to advocate for further coup attempts or other violence to reverse the election results.
  

• Trump repeatedly stated that he hoped that the Supreme Court would (unconstitutionally) decide the election and that he wanted a conservative majority in case of an election dispute.
  
• To this end, Republicans expedited the October nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Court in spirt of hypocritically and vehemently refusing a February nomination before the previous election.
  

• Mail-in ballots overwhelming favored Biden.
  

If they'd exercised a bit of restraint, tact, I think they could have won over the people sooner.

That Trumpet should  be in prison is not seen by Trumpeteers,

-->@oromagi

That's a lot of words,

I thought the Democrats tried to impeach him on the Ukraine thing already, and he was found innocent/acquitted?

• In fact, Trump was impeached and a trial convened in the Senate.  The Republican controlled Senate refused to call any witnesses or review any evidence of any kind.
  
• The most relevant eye-witness to the criminal charge, NSA Director John Bolton, referred to the Trump-Zelensky call as "drug deal" and Guiliani as a hand-grenade trying to blow them all up and confirmed that Trump was guilty as fuck of the charges laid against him.
  
• So if the DA decides to press charges but then the Judge, who happens to be the defendant's next door neighbor, declares a mistrial without even allowing the DA to make opening remarks is that innocence?  No.  Isn't that just obvious corruption , in the case of this impeachment corruption performed on live TV?  Trump and McConnell counted on folks like you to not give a damn about corruption and it looks like you delivered.
  
• So, let's add Republican's corrupt disinterest in the truth to the long list of ways Republicans unfairly rigged the 2020 Election.
  

Too bad they didn't try the censure option, 'had to go for the impeachment, and try to overturn the election of Trump to the presidency.

Or was that the one he 'was impeached on, they all blend together for me, really.

"So if in-person voting is safe, then why are Democrats pushing belated and risky changes toward all-mail balloting in key states?

The answer is quite simple: Democrats believe that all-mail voting will boost the political chances of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and sow chaos and uncertainty in case of a victory by President Trump."

"Democrats claim there is little evidence of fraud associated with all mail-in ballots. Don’t buy it. There is plenty of evidence of election crimes and administrative errors associated with mail-in voting.

Look no further than a recent New York congressional primary, when Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s late shift to mail-in voting led to chaos. Election officials disqualified thousands of ballots for not having timely postmarks and the election was not certified for six weeks."

"Problems with mail-in voting are not new. In 2005, the bipartisan Commission on Federal Election Reform found mass voting by mail remains “the largest source of potential voter fraud.”"

Democrats want to use mail-in ballots to steal election and deny Trump second term - United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

• Trump repeatedly stated that he hoped that the Supreme Court would (unconstitutionally) decide the election and that he wanted a conservative majority in case of an election dispute.
  
• To this end, Republicans expedited the October nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Court in spirt of hypocritically and vehemently refusing a February nomination before the previous election.
  

Well that's just politics, it's not 'nice, maybe bad long term strategy, but politics.

• Mail-in ballots overwhelming favored Biden.
  

Something that the Democrats 'intended, I'm sure.

. . .

Eh, whether Trump transferred power 'gracefully, is a different question.

insurrection, coup, bah.

Riot at most, and only for those who 'entered the building, not the thousands voicing their opinions 'outside.

@oromagi

2020 United States presidential election - Wikipedia

Popular vote

Biden                                    Trump

81,268,924                         74,216,154

'That's an unpopular support of Trump?

After 'all his errors?

'That's the best the Democratic nominee could do?

'That's something to say, well, we handled that fine?

Well stated. There were 213,799,485 registered voters in 2020. Trump got  74216154 votes which is 35% of registered voters. 35 percent also just happens to be the percent of mentally ill people in the USA.

Obviously, there's plenty more.  I'm just surveying the Wikipedia bullet points, really. - oromagi

Yeah, that's too bad because that's so  amazingly wrong and the event was so recent and well publicized.  I think a lot of Trump supporters are just willfully misinformed. - oromagi