Showing signs that he’s getting close to throwing in the towel, 74-year-old President Donald Trump said today that he lost the election, despite insisting that the election was “rigged,” accusing Democrats of voter fraud. Trump only has one minor problem that he has no proof of voter fraud and his legal strategies are all falling apart. Trump tweeted today that “he won because the Election was rigged,” knowing that voters are moving on, looking ahead to Inauguration Day, despite Trump’s claims of “fraud.” Battling the outcome out in court was always a long-shot, now in the last gasps before it’s all over. With all the anti-Trump rhetoric and disinformation in the media, Trump promised his followers he’d fight to the end. It’s doubtful Trump will ever concede the election to Biden but will call in the movers to relocate himself, Melania and Barron back to Trump Tower in New York City.
All through his presidency, the media has been utterly intimidated by Trump, promoting the narrative that he was a “dictator,” destroying American democracy. Trump was accused by the media of trying to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller, something that never happened. All through the 2020 campaign the media accused Trump of refusing to leave the White House if he lost the election. Hours of Democrat-friendly talk shows were spent interviewing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her House gang, whipping the public into a frenzy over accusations that Trump would never leave the White House. More recently, Democrat-friendly talk shows on CNN and MSNBC talked incessantly of white supremacist violence happening if Trump did not win the 2020 election, all fake news designed to poison the public into thinking Trump was a dangerous tyrant.
Since losing the election Nov. 3, Trump looks like a different person, shell-shocked, even looking more grey like he aged overnight. Whatever Trump tweets now, it’s all noise before he calls it quits. When Trump called universal mail in ballots voter fraud, what he didn’t realize is that Republicans have a numerical registration disadvantage to Democrats and independents. If states sent massive amounts of mail-in ballots to voters, it wasn’t fraud, just got more ballots to potential Democrat and independent voters, causing a 5 million-vote disparity between Biden and Trump. Fraud played a minor role, compared to making it easy for Democrat and independent registered voters to cast their ballots. When you consider Trump got votes 72 million votes compared to Biden’s 77 million, it was a remarkable feat considering Democrats and independents enjoyed a big registered voter advantage.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C..), Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said that Republicans may never win the White House again if universal mail-in ballots continue. When Covid-19 finally ends, maybe Congress will restrict universal mail-in ballots only in times of national emergency. Trump knows that his legal challenges are ending soon, leaving him to admit that “whoever” is in the White House in January, though hedging the admission saying he thought it would be him. Trump’s near admission was the closet yet that he’s ready to accept his fate. Republicans have bigger fish to fry no with two competitive runoff Senate seats up for grabs in Georgia. “Hopefully, whatever happens in the future, who knows which administration it will be, I guess time will tell. This administration will not go to a lockdown,” Trump tweeted, coming very close to admitting defeat to Biden.
Trump gave it his best shot in the last two weeks of the campaign, recovering from Covid-19 in record time to hold up to five rallies a day. His loyal following attended the largest campaign rallies in U.S. history, with Trump, the master showman, mesmerizing audiences. Trump always commented in his rallies how the fake news media would never report accurately the incredible crowds, something most politicians could only dream of. But, in the end, Trump had great enthusiasm but he didn’t have the numerical numbers to pull off the come-from-behind upset. Had former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had universal mail-in ballots in 2016, Trump would have never become president. Trump was blindsided by the biggest electoral turnout in U.S. history, upending his wish for a second term. Whatever fraud occurred in 2020, it didn’t impact the election results.
Tweeting “RIGGED ELECTION. WE WILL WIN!” Trump signaled that his campaign is close to giving up. “He only won in the eyes of the FAKE NEWS MEDIA. I concede NOTHING! We have a long way to go. This was a RIGGED ELECTION,” Trump tweeted, hoping his followers that demonstrated yesterday in Washington still have hope. But most Trump supporters know that the one-time Trump experiment in rocking boat is rapidly coming to an end. It doesn’t matter if Trump never concedes, only that he moves out before Jan. 20, 2021. Biden and Harris can get all their national security briefings from the Senate Intelligence Committee, not needing to meet with Trump between now and Inauguration Day. When Trump’s finally out, Democrats and media have little to talk about, now that the Covid-19 crisis, the economy and everything else becomes their problem.
