Most composite polls in 2020 gave Trump only an 18% chance of winning. Trump screaming “rigged” re: his expected defeat is nothing like the legitimate concerns raised about Trump’s poll-defying win in 2016 or Bush’s poll-defying win in 04. 1/
https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1297576731587440641
Those who tried to equate these very different situations are either uninformed or else they are deliberately ignoring the facts. #propaganda 2/
Trump had nothing to go on but repetition and the force of his own well oiled propaganda machine. 3/
By contrast, in addition to the polls, there were reports of Russian hacking in 2016. And in 04, there was the re-routing of election results through Smartech in TN (which also hosted the Bush WH’s emails), plus vote-flipping touchscreens in up to 13 states (90% for Bush). 4/
Plus in 04, there were the lines of up to 10 hours in Ohio due to the undisputed insufficient allocation of voting machines to Democratic strongholds. 5/
Plus, the president of Diebold had written in a fundraising letter that he was committed to delivering Ohio to Bush. 6/
Plus, the partial 3% recount in Ohio in 04 (sought by the Green Party bc Kerry rolled over) was rigged by election workers who preselected the precincts. Two people were indicted for it. 7/
Plus, a contractor employed by Triad (which has bragged on its website about creating the infamous butterfly ballots that helped Bush “win” by just 537 votes in 2000) had remote access to the central tabulators (which compile precinct results) in at least two Ohio counties. 8/
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