1) The good news for those of us who were worried about violence after this election if it was close is that in determining who won it is NOT close. Biden won many more states than he needs to win the EC, and his margins in those states are all 10,000 votes or more. So no ...
2) challenge to any one state will change the outcome, and no states had knife edge margins of 5,000 or less. While it is true that 100,000 votes changing in key states could change the outcome, no conceivable legal challenge could change that many votes in that many places....
3) so to any rational person, the facts are that Biden's victory is unassailable. But when have facts ever mattered to Donald Trump? He has always believed that if he repeats his lies often enough on camera or in front of a crowd, they will believe him, facts be damned. He's...
4) done this with COVID, with his health care "plan," with his economic and racial justice achievements, etc. etc. So why not pursue a strategy of lying about who won the election? Maybe he can find a dozen illegal votes accepted by error, and argue there must be 100,000s!
5) So we now face a frightening month (to elec college mtg. Dec. 14) when Trump will fight to persuade his followers he really won. If he persuades millions of his followers that Biden is planning to illegally take office, what will they do? Protest? Attack the inauguration?
6) Every Republican official who supports this madness (talking to you Ted Cruz) is undermining the stability and democracy of the United States. STOP IT! We must persuade all Americans that this was a fair, free election that Biden legitimately won. That's the only way forward.
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