Both parties make stolen election claims

 The Wrap:

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham spent his Christmas Eve defending Donald Trump’s continued claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Speaking with Pierre Thomas on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday, Graham was asked if Trump’s election denial is the best standard to set for future generations. The senator replied, “Well, you know, Hillary Clinton had the same view that she was cheated.”

“He’s not the first politician to claim to have been denied a fair election,” Graham added. “I accept the election results of 2020,” he continued. “I’m worried about 2024. If President Trump puts a vision out improving security and prosperity for Americans, he will win. If he looks back, I think he will lose. So at the end of the day, the 2020 election is over for me.”

In 2019, Clinton told CBS that Trump’s insistence on leading crowds in chants of “lock her up” years after their own presidential face-off didn’t bother her because “he knows he’s an illegitimate president.” Clinton added, “I believe he understands that the many varying tactics they used, from voter suppression and voter purging to hacking to the false stories — he knows that — there were just a bunch of different reasons why the election turned out like it did.”

Her sentiment echoed the words of former President Jimmy Carter, who a month earlier told the audience at a Carter Center event that Trump “didn’t actually win the election in 2016” and, “He lost the election, and he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf.”
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I have seen no evidence that the Russians interfered with the 2016 election.  In fact, the Russians were much less likely to become aggressive under Trump than they have been under Biden.   They did not attack Ukraine until Biden was in office.  China has also been much more aggressive under Biden.  Close elections lend themselves to allegations of vote rigging.  It will probably take a landslide election for the loser to acknowledge the results were legitimate.  

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How Mass Mail-In Voting Changes Everything

When the emphasis in elections shifts from turning out conventional in-person voters to chasing mail-in ballots, we have entered a qualitatively different electoral world than the one we inhabited before.

Since 2020, elections have been under assault by a complex of leftist lawyers, nonprofits, and election activists as they attempt to implement schemes and introduce administrative changes that fundamentally transform the way elections are conducted.

Most of these changes have been undertaken in the interest of promoting mass mail-in voting. The objective of mail-in voting activists is an electoral world in which polls, historical trends, economic issues, messaging, voter enthusiasm, candidate quality, traditional get-out-the-vote efforts, candidate debates, and voter persuasion no longer matter in elections.
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