I've yet to hear an explanation for how the fraud algorithm caused Trump to over-perform in Detroit
Obama received 96.93% of the vote in Detroit in 2008, with a total of 324,895 votes. Biden received 240,936 total votes in Detroit, a 34.8% decrease -- some but not all of which you can attribute to population decline. Biden did not out-perform Obama in Detroit by any metric
The total number of votes cast in Detroit increased by 3.9% compared to 2016, which amounted to 9,626 additional votes. This was far less than the statewide increase in votes cast (15.4%). The margin separating Biden and Trump in Michigan is 154,188 votes
Anyway, this is getting boring
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You have to be seriously delusional (or slept through the past four years) if you're remotely surprised that there's this campaign to declare the election fraudulent. Because it may be the most predictable thing ever. Other than that, Happy Thanksgiving mtracey.medium.com/the-most-predi…
The 2016 post-election insanity was a direct precursor to the current situation. BTW, to say that certain events create conditions that give rise to future events isn't to say that those events are "the same" -- but I understand how difficult of a concept this can be for many
The bipartisan trend toward delegitimization of US election outcomes has taken different forms. Dems maneuvering/machinating with surrogates, weaponizing intel agencies -- GOP/Trump just outright screaming wholesale fraud. But it's the clear trend, and it's rapidly accelerating
I knew it would be widely denied that prominent liberals floated an Electoral College coup in 2016, which is why I contemporaneously saved a bunch of examples
Reminder: Live discussion on YouTube today at 3pm EST with @Barnes_Law, who affirms the contention that "the outcome of the election was determined by elaborate, systematic fraud" youtube.com/channel/UCaLn4…
Here's the direct link:
Conversation just ended. Thought it went reasonably well (was never intended to be a formal "debate"!)
Now the official claim by way of Rudy G is that there was "a plan from a centralized place to execute these various acts of voter fraud." So it's a conspiracy theory. Not all conspiracy theories are wrong. But this is an explicit assertion of a coordinated, mass-scale conspiracy
And now it's also a "foreign interference" conspiracy according to Sidney Powell -- "Venezuela, Cuba, and likely China"
Giuliani clarifies that what he's positing is a "national conspiracy." That's his term
The good news about the 2020 election is that it provided more than enough material to make pretty much everyone feel stupid: mtracey.medium.com/why-everyone-s…
I like how Twitter asks me if I’d like to read my own article first before retweeting it
TLDR: Anyone who confidently proclaims that all their prior assumptions about the nature of the electorate were unambiguously vindicated by this election outcome is full of shit
I came to tonight’s Trump rally in Rome, GA over four hours early and only barely made it in because the lines were so long. The contrast with Biden events is just comical
Although to quote one attendee I overheard waiting on line: “I tell ya, we are superspreaders right now [laughs]”
More people than I thought were wearing masks but it was still probably less than half overall, even though the Trump campaign officially encourages mask-wearing
Also there were people melting down left and right due to the logistical shitshow of leaving the event. Screaming matches between people over who gets to board returning busses, etc. I heard variations of “this is the biggest nightmare...” shouted in frustration several times