[AGL] did Biden really win?

[Frances Morey]

Thank you, Margaret, for summing it up so beautifully. Thank you for your
precise summation.
Best,
Frances

On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 11:13 AM Margaret Martone <maggiemartone at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Michael...this sounds so BS. Biden won because a greater percentage of the
> people were sick and tired of the antics of the Orange Buffoon. People who
> hadn’t voted in years answered the call of the Dems to register to vote and
> turn around our slide into fascism.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Dec 5, 2020, at 9:48 AM, Michael Eisenstadt <eisenstadt0 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>  I was disappointed that Trump did not win re-election. Die-hard
> pro-Trumpers immediately cried foul alleging massive fraud. As uninformed
> as the average 'Merican, I didn't know what to believe. The lawsuits that
> the Trump party have initiated have gone nowhere. So far as I can tell, no
> smoking gun has been revealed to prove
> *massive *fraud that changed the outcome. No one denies that petty fraud
> was committed as that is in the long-time tradition of American elections.
> AG Burr reported to Trump that no evidence of fraud substantial enough to
> affect the election had been discovered by the Justice Dept.
>
> However there are a number of indices that something is rotten in the
> state of Denmark to quote the Bard in regard to this election. The
> following essay by Peter D'Abrosca marshalls a number of statistics that
> make the results of this election literally impossible.
>
> Here is what he wrote -
>
> Over the past month, thousands of detailed voter fraud claims have stemmed
> from the contested November 3 presidential election.
>
> Americans are discussing the intricacies of software algorithms used by
> the now-infamous Dominion Voting Systems. There has been scrutiny of the
> insecure chain of custody of mail-in ballots and the signature verification
> process for those ballots. In several cases, the poll-watching that
> normally regulates vote tallying appears to have excluded Republicans.
> There’s plenty of evidence that Joe Biden secured the reliably Democratic
> necromancers’ union vote, and that unregistered voters and felons voted
> illegally. Postal workers have come forward claiming they were told to
> backdate ballots if ballots were postmarked after Election Day.
>
> But while many complex pieces of evidence outlined in sworn affidavits and
> presented by lawyers are certainly necessary for the court battles that lie
> ahead, the court of public opinion is perhaps a more important battleground.
>
> If the public at large thinks that Republican claims of voter fraud are,
> in the parlance of our times, malarkey, the courts will be less likely to
> hear Republicans’ cases or rule in Republicans’ favor. Bucking the public
> sentiment is not easy, even for judges who have sworn to remain impartial
> and rule in a manner consistent with facts.
>
> President Trump senses this. It’s why he described
> <https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-11-29/trump-gives-first-interview-since-election>
> the need for a “brave judge, or justice” to hear his cases.
>
> So instead of getting lost in the minutia, it might work in Republicans’
> favor, especially in the court of public opinion, to harp on the *prima
> facie* case for voter fraud.
>
> On that front, the obvious place to start is with Joe Biden’s vote
> total—supposedly a whopping 80 million. It’s a staggering number and one
> that could be called “unbelievable,” in the true sense of that word.
>
> That is close to 15 million more votes than Hillary Clinton received in
> 2016.
>
> Was Joe Biden, whose handful of campaign events featured around 12 or so
> people trapped in COVID circles, or a few parked cars honking their horns,
> inspiring enough to garner 15 million more voters than Hillary? Was he a
> masterful debater who significantly outperformed Clinton on that national
> stage? Could he put two sentences together without getting confused? Does
> he know what planet he’s on? Probably not.
>
> By contrast, President Trump spearheaded an outright revolution against
> the political class in 2016, invigorating millions to attend his rallies
> and sparking a movement that—no matter the outcome of the 2020 race—will be
> a force in American politics for decades to come. The energy and enthusiasm
> of the original Trump campaign are unmatched in modern political history.
> Still, in 2016, he only outperformed Mitt Romney’s 2012 vote total by about
> two million votes.
>
> Worth noting, Joe Biden also surpassed Barack Obama’s 2008 vote total of
> 69 million by about 11 million votes. Even Democrats and the media (but I
> repeat myself) seem unwilling to argue that Joe Biden was a more exciting
> or inspiring candidate than his top-of-the-ticket running mate.
>
> Both the improbable vote totals and the candidates’ enthusiasm gap serve
> as clear-cut, *prima facie* evidence of fraud.
>
> Biden’s otherworldly 80 million votes are being explained away as hatred
> for President Trump. The media will have you believe that Americans were
> spurred into action, not to vote *for* Joe Biden, but to vote *against*
> the Bad Orange Man. President Trump, they say, is such a loathsome figure
> that a record number of Americans had no choice but to vote against him.
>
> But that’s not really true.
>
> President Trump garnered 74 million votes this year. That’s about 11
> million more than he won in 2016. While President Trump’s popularity
> significantly and demonstrably increased among the voting populace, a
> record-breaking number of people also voted against him? That assertion is
> ridiculous on its face.
>
> Here’s more *prima facie* evidence of fraud from pollster Richard Baris
> of Big Data Poll.
>
> “Biden underperformed Hillary Clinton in every major metro area around the
> country, save for Milwaukee, Detroit, Atlanta, and Philadelphia,” Baris
> said
> <https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2020/11/14/democracy-institute-pollster-yes-i-think-this-election-was-stolen-n2579970>
> .
>
> Biden also underperformed Clinton in New York City by a wide margin, and
> the only exception to Baris’ rule was Los Angeles, where Biden received
> about 600,000 more votes than Clinton did in 2016. The pair virtually tied
> in Chicago.
>
> But in all of the major cities in the four most important swing states,
> Joe Biden managed to crush Hillary Clinton (a typo for Donald Trump?). How
> convenient.
>
> And what about those down-ballot races? We were promised a Blue Wave by
> Democrats, and in 2018 a Red Wave by Republicans. Each side was supposed to
> mop the floor with the other, up and down the ballot. That’s not what
> happened.
>
> Somehow, Joe Biden’s supposed 80 million vote insurgency didn’t manage to
> matriculate to Democrats down-ballot. In such polarizing times, that
> doesn’t add up.
>
> In fact, in 2018, when Donald Trump was *not* at the top of the ballot,
> Republicans lost 40 seats in the House. In 2020, when Donald Trump *was*
> at the top of the ballot, they gained 12 House seats, suggesting that his
> presence on the ballot galvanized Republicans.
>
> And those hundreds of sworn affidavits mentioned above, each of which
> testifies under penalty of perjury to some kind of voting irregularity?
> Those affidavits themselves are *prima facie* evidence of voter fraud.
>
> Unless hundreds of Americans from every corner of the country have
> conspired to lie under oath on behalf of President Trump, risking their
> liberty to cheat the Democrats out of victory, the sheer number of
> documented irregularities cannot be ignored. If these claims are indeed
> fabricated, they would comprise the single largest conspiracy in the
> history of American electoral politics.
>
> Republicans are ready to bring detailed evidence of voter fraud to court.
> That’s great.
>
> But first, they must win in the court of public opinion by bull horning
> the glaring, *prima facie* irregularities of the 2020 election cycle for
> the entire nation to see.
>
>
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