Support for Trump's allegations of vote fraud in 2020

 Power Line:

Donald Trump’s “town hall” appearance on CNN last night has liberals gnashing their teeth. They don’t understand why CNN would give Trump a forum, they are appalled that the audience was in Trump’s corner, and they are frustrated that Trump dominated the event, with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins unable to keep Trump under control, let alone embarrass him.

Inevitably, CNN’s host ignored the pressing issues of the day and went straight to what the Left really cares about, the 2020 election and Trump’s refusal to accept that Biden’s victory was legitimate (just as Hillary Clinton refused to accept that Trump’s 2016 victory was legitimate). This was Collins’s first question (from CNN’s transcript):

[Y]our polls show that you are dominating the Republican race right now, but you are also under active federal investigation for trying to overturn the 2020 election results. Your first term ended with a deadly riot at the Capitol, and you still have not publicly acknowledged the 2020 election results.

Why should Americans put you back in the White House?

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 This rambling and semi-coherent riff was Trump’s principal statement on the subject:

I think that, when you look at that result and when you look at what happened during that election, unless you’re a very stupid person, you see what happens.

A lot of the people – a lot of the people in this audience and perhaps maybe a couple that don’t, but most people understand what happened.

That was a rigged election, and it’s a shame that we had to go through it. It’s very bad for our country. All over the world, they looked at it, and they saw exactly what everyone else saw. And you look – even if you just look recently with the 51 intelligence agents, that made a 16-point difference.

If you look at the FBI…

Trump said the election was “rigged,” which happens to be the title of Mollie Hemingway’s book. Mollie makes a persuasive case, which has nothing to do with Dominion’s voting machines. Which Trump never mentioned last night, either. Instead, he started talking about the very real issue of the “Dirty 51” and their fraudulent letter, which may well have swung the election to Biden. Its authors certainly hoped that it would do so.

But Collins didn’t want to talk about that important issue....

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No evidence of what? I don’t know about the 28 voting booths and the seven ballots, but Democrat election officials in Philadelphia and Detroit locked Republicans out of the buildings where ballots were being processed, and Republicans had to go to court to gain admittance. Do you think the Democrats did that because they were counting votes honestly? In Atlanta, Democrats lied, saying they were going to stop counting for the night because of a broken pipe. Once Republicans and reporters left the building, they resumed counting ballots. Why do you think they did that? Collins’s blanket statements that there is “no evidence” of voter fraud are ridiculous on their face.

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COLLINS: Mr. President, there weren’t any fraudulent votes in Wisconsin.

That claim by Collins is absurd, more obviously false than anything Trump said. Of course fraudulent votes were cast in Wisconsin. The question is how many, and the answer is, we have no way to know. The Democrats do their best to enable voter fraud by blocking every election integrity measure that is proposed in every state. So they own the issue of voter fraud. If we can’t tell how many illegal ballots are being cast, that is on them, not on the Republicans. They can’t get out from under their own actions by baselessly asserting, over and over, that there is zero fraud. Or no significant amount of fraud. Or not enough fraud to swing an election. We could have secure elections, as many countries do, but we don’t, because Democrats don’t want them. They have to take the consequences.

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... Until they finally agree to ballot security, voters are going to suspect that fraud plays an important role in our elections, whether the Democrats like it or not.

This is a long piece that is worth reading in full.  The Democrats did a lot of things that made the election less secure in order to "win."  They used the pandemic as an excuse to do away with election integrity measures including mail-in ballots.  Power Line is also correct that the 51 intel guys' letter about Hunter's laptop was totally bogus.