Thread by @JonathanSimon14

A rare tweetstorm brought on by #2000Mules, the 98% BS Dinesh DeSouza film that has MAGAs re-swallowing TRUMP'S BIG LIE whole. First, check out:
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gregpalast.com/2000-mules-bel… 1/ @jennycohn1

Now add to all that this little chart: 2/

What does this show? It shows:

1) A Biden victory margin reduced by 5.5 million votes from the aggregate of tracking polls and 6 million votes from the national exit poll.

2) The Trump approval rating for these polls was 44.6% and 46.0% respectively. 3/

What does that tell us? It tells us that all these polls' samples were GENEROUS to Trump voters, showing HIGHER levels of support (approval) than Trump had been receiving at any time in the months before the election. Significantly higher... 4/

These polls - all of them - did NOT "oversample Democrats" or show any sign of bias to Biden - just the opposite.

So what REALLY needs explaining is where those 6 million Biden votes went - what could account for this egregious red shift for the nation as a whole?... 5/

Was it Republican "mules" stuffing ballot boxes (just as they accused Democrats and nonprofits of doing)? Was it Louis DeJoy and the USPS spiking ballots through late delivery or just "losing" them? Was it targeted mistabulation? Or AOTA?... 6/

It did not change the result for TRUMP (although he apparently was led to expect it would) but it avoided the embarrassment to the GOP of a 12 or 13 million vote national shellacking, and it sure spelled trouble for DEMOCRATS below the top of the ballot (as usual)... 7/

But WE didn't make a movie (unless you want to go back and watch Dorothy Fadiman's "Stealing America: Vote by Vote," or David Earnhardt's "UNCOUNTED: The New Math of American Elections," or the others, now decades old). THEY did... 8/

Which pretty much sums up this whole Alice-In-Wonderland nightmare. Don't look now but it's going to get worse. 9/9