Seriously, does Trump actually believe the election is determined by network projections? And is all of Trumpworld going along with it because nobody wants to tell him otherwise?

The campaign seems to have spent a lot of time and energy on this. washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
Again, I'm starting to think they literally believe this.
They literally have no idea how any of this works.
I guess the theory is not simply that Biden stole a few votes in PA, etc. but he stole all 70 million plus of his votes, because you didn't see enough yard signs?
Ok, he's a democratic donor.

Therefore, he decided to wrongly call a state for Biden, even though it would have no impact on the result of the election and only make him look foolish?

If you assume they think tv networks decide who wins, the conspiracy then makes sense.

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