We recently passed the two year anniversary of The Stolen Election. Let's not forget its birth.
The day was August 18, 2020 and the event was a televised speech Trump made, then more than two months before the election. The speech had a single theme - that Biden could not win a fair election; Biden could win only by fraud. At the time the speech seemed to many like Trump merely blowing off steam, that he couldn't possibly be serious because it was Joe Biden, not he, leading in the polls, in all the polls. In Vegas, the clear betting favorite also was Biden. Certainly the polls could be wrong or it wasn't too late for Trump to turn it around but if anyone seemed then to have little chance of winning a fair election it wasn't Biden, whose lead did continue right up to election day. Shortly before the polls opened Trump was advised once again by his own campaign that the outlook was grim.
But in that August speech Trump had known exactly what he was doing, and he was ready.
The day was August 18, 2020 and the event was a televised speech Trump made, then more than two months before the election. The speech had a single theme - that Biden could not win a fair election; Biden could win only by fraud. At the time the speech seemed to many like Trump merely blowing off steam, that he couldn't possibly be serious because it was Joe Biden, not he, leading in the polls, in all the polls. In Vegas, the clear betting favorite also was Biden. Certainly the polls could be wrong or it wasn't too late for Trump to turn it around but if anyone seemed then to have little chance of winning a fair election it wasn't Biden, whose lead did continue right up to election day. Shortly before the polls opened Trump was advised once again by his own campaign that the outlook was grim.
But in that August speech Trump had known exactly what he was doing, and he was ready.