As many of you are aware, I firmly believe that Joe Biden was fraudulently elected President in 2020. Back in 2020 when I went to bed late on election night (Pacific time), Trump was ahead by quite a large margin. When I awoke the following morning, Joe Biden had been “elected” President! A miracle? Both Mike Pence and the Supreme Court both ducked, and consequently we Americans have been punished by four years of incompetence in the White House. Over the last four years I have been told multiple versions of, “That’s life!,” and “You’re wrong; grin and bear it!”
However, just the other day I read an op-ed posted in Amac on 11/14/24 by Paul Ingrassia, a graduate of Fordham University and Cornell Law School, and a two-time Claremont Fellow. In his opinion there are multiple logical reasons to assume that, indeed, the 2020 election was fraudulent.
The title of Ingrassia’s rather long and comprehensive piece is:
“Donald Trump’s Win Against Kamala Harris Proves Beyond All Doubt That 2020 Was Stolen”
“Back in 2020 Trump and his supporters were vilified because they simply wanted Congress to carry out its constitutional duties to allow state legislatures to review the electoral process, and investigate very real allegations of fraud in a select number of precincts nationwide. The idea that a presidential election can be stolen in an era and electorate as polarized as ours, is not a ludicrous assumption – quite the contrary. As was observed in both 2016 and 2020, the presidential race could be decided by a few ten thousand voters dispersed across a handful of battlegrounds. Really, in 2020, you can boil the election down to three particular counties: Fulton County in Georgia, Maricopa County in Arizona, and Philadelphia County in Pennsylvania, and find sufficient evidence of outcome-determinative fraud. Three counties are theoretically all that it would have taken to steal the 2020 presidential election.
Had Republican auditors and state legislatures been allowed to carry out their jobs and conduct a thorough investigation into just these three counties, it could have theoretically been enough to win the election for President Trump. In 2020, the combined electoral vote output of Georgia (16), Arizona (11), and Pennsylvania (19) was 46, meaning President Trump would have won the election if he carried all three – or even just Georgia and Pennsylvania, which would have gotten him to exactly 270. Thus, the argument that the election was stolen based on systematic fraud in a handful of counties distributed across the country is not only logical, but exceptionally plausible.
The plausibility is heightened by the response by the Democratic Party – and broader Left wing political coalition – that rendered it verboten to even speak the words “election fraud” without suffering massive personal costs. Usually, a telltale for nefarious activity is being bullied into not speaking about a particular subject.”
Ingrassia’s opinion is bolstered by the numbers of votes counted in 2020 compared to 2024. Basically the numbers come down to the fact that the combined vote of Trump and Harris – 148 million and counting – is about seven million less than four years ago, but far surpasses by wide margins every previous election in American history.
The argument that it was easier to vote in 2020 due to special laws (of dubious legality, mind you) enacted in the lead-up to that race, making it easier to vote from home or extending the election period,fails because 1) many of those laws (albeit in abridged forms) have not been totally repealed, as evidenced by the fact that this year’s election took place over many weeks and was not limited to a single day; and 2) Donald Trump, again, obtained more votes this year than he did four years ago.
As it currently stands, Kamala’s 72 million votes (a number also likely inflated due to outstanding fraud in states like Arizona, Nevada, California, Pennsylvania, and New York) represents a 12.5 percent decrease over the four-year period. If the trends were consistent, Donald Trump should have received only 66.5 million votes this year – instead, he is on pace to get about ten million more than that figure.”
My suggestion, if you are still dubious of Ingassia’s arguments that the 2020 election was fraudulent, is to read his entire piece, and then to let me know if you are then more or less convinced of the fraud of 2020.
11/23/24