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That’s How You Overturn an Election
Now that, Donald Trump, is how you overturn an election. You win.
This time four years ago, Trump felt that he lost the 2020 election because of voter fraud. But the best way to reverse a loss that you don’t like is not by charging fraud but by regrouping and winning outright four years later.
Trump and his supporters should have understood that charging that an election was stolen is a lost cause. In a country the size of the United States of America, with 50 different states utterly un-united in terms of how they handle ballots, conclusively proving that a form of voter fraud swung an entire election is a nonstarter. The system is too complex, convoluted, confused, and oftentimes, yes, corrupted, especially in big cities dominated by Democrat political machines. Add crooked unions to the mix, and you have a terribly tainted system. No one, Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal, should ever doubt that corruption runs deep in elections, especially in the city that sits in the southeastern corner of my beloved home state of Pennsylvania, namely: Philadelphia.
We call it filthy Philadelphia. That city where America was founded in 1776 is rotten in many ways. It’s scandalously corrupt.
In 2020, I could understand why Donald Trump was suspicious of what happened to the vote in Pennsylvania. I wrote two pieces here at The American Spectator that exploded on the internet. On Nov. 13, 2020, I published “Why Pennsylvania Doesn’t Add Up,” which was widely shared and reprinted. Two weeks later, I wrote what became a blockbuster, “Pennsylvania Bombshell: Biden 99.4% vs. Trump 0.6%,” a mega-piece that plainly went viral. The two articles had so many clicks that we struggled to track them. They had over a million pageviews between them.
I got quite a bit of blowback for those pieces from non-Trump supporters. But I swear, I was simply trying to honestly understand how that massive lead by Donald Trump the night of Nov. 3, 2020, (we Pennsylvania Republicans had never seen such a lead for the GOP nominee in our state) could have disappeared. It literally seemed mathematically insurmountable. And yet, it slowly but steadily vanished as an untold number of mail-in ballots flowed in with no end in sight. I live in Pennsylvania and know key political people throughout the Commonwealth. I can tell you that no one had any idea how many mail-in ballots were in circulation. I recall CNN initially speculating that there were 1.6 million mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania. Soon, it was 2 million, and then 2.2, and 2.5, and on and on, straight to the moon. The total kept growing until finally Joe Biden passed Donald Trump.
Today, Cliff Maloney, a Republican strategist dedicated in 2024 to rounding up mail-in ballots for the Pennsylvania GOP, said that in 2020, Trump won Election Day voting by 1.3 million votes but lost mail-in ballots by an “astonishing” 1.4 million. In the end, that was the difference, with Biden winning the state by 80,000 votes.
In 2020, Trump and his advocates suspected fraud in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. You couldn’t blame his frustration, even as — or perhaps especially as — he could never prove it.
Of course, the mail-in balloting nationwide was a disaster. And predictably so. That’s why so many countries, including in the European Union, ban mail-in ballots. The Carter–Baker Commission, named for former President Jimmy Carter and Secretary of State James Baker, concluded in 2005: “Absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.”
Of course, they do. That’s common sense.
Imagine President Trump’s shock at discovering that he had increased his vote total from 63 million in 2016 to 74 million in 2020 — a staggering increase — and yet lost by seven million votes. He was stunned, and incredulous.
Nonetheless, as I might have advised Donald Trump (if I knew him), it really is just about impossible to conclusively show that fraud tipped the scales in an election. In 1960, Republican Richard Nixon was informed of vote manipulation that swung the election to Democrat John F. Kennedy. What did Nixon do in response? He sighed, shrugged, and conceded that there was little he could do. He knew that to challenge the election would rip the country apart.
But there was one thing that Richard Nixon could do: He could run for the presidency again. He did so in 1968. And he won. That was how he reversed the 1960 loss.
In retrospect, Donald Trump should have done the same. After November 2020, he should have told his supporters something to the effect of, “Look, I’m very suspicious about vote manipulation, though I doubt we can do anything to reverse it and overturn the results. But here’s what we can do: We can fight. We can run again in four years and beat the bastards in November 2024.”
That’s Trumpian language, and it would have fired up his supporters in a better way than what blew up at the Capitol on Jan. 6. Ultimately, that message did rally Trump’s supporters in November 2024. They reelected him, four years later.
That’s how you overturn an election.
Unfortunately for Donald Trump and his supporters, that also means that all hell is about to break loose with the Left. They should savor their victory now because the fruits will be bittersweet as America’s progressives lose their collective minds. When liberals don’t get their way, they’re nasty.
Prepare for some awful days ahead, folks. Donald Trump, you overturned the 2020 verdict. Congratulations. Savor the victory. But now, the Left is going to make you pay.
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