As 78-year-old Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) liked to say running for president, “enough-is-enough,” especially when it comes to 74-year-old President Donald Trump claims to widespread voter fraud in the Nov. 3 presidential election. Trump’s still in disbelief over this loss to President-elect Joe Biden, whom Trump called on the campaign trail the “worst candidate in presidential history.” Well, if that’s true, then it’s time for Trump to take a hint that the election was about getting rid of him, less about an overwhelming vote for Biden. If Trump follows his own logic, he should have beat Biden by the same 6 million-vote margin that he lost to Joe. There’s no doubt that universal mail-in ballots made it easier for people to get rid of Trump, since Democrats and independents enjoy a wide numerical advantage to Republicans, giving Biden the edge in the 2020 election.
Regardless of how Biden won by such a big margin, Trump must crack out of his denial and face the reality that he’ll need to pack in the next month or so. It doesn’t matter whether he believes his claims of voters fraud. It matters that U.S. courts conclude that widespread voter fraud did not cost him the election. Trump tweeted Saturday that “his investigators” uncovered hundreds-of-thousands of votes in key swing states that prove he won the election. One small problem, he can’t prove it, not even ad Kangaroo court. Trump tweeted he didn’t get why Biden was “quickly forming a Cabinet,” when the election’s in dispute. But the election’s only in dispute in Trump’s mind because no court agrees with his conclusions that widespread voter fraud was committed Nov. 3. Trump called on state legislatures to have the “COURAGE to do what has to be done,” saying, ‘THE WORLD IS WATCHING!!!”
Trump is right that the world is watching not because there’s voter fraud but because he’s a sore loser, who lost the election by over 6 million popular votes and in the Electoral College 306 to 232, a bigger margin than he beat former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2016. Back then, Hillary beat Trump by nearly 3 million popular voters, though popular votes don’t count in presidential elections. Trump’s refusal, so far, to cooperate with Biden’s transition team forced Biden to take matters into his own hands and name his Cabinet. Trump looks more isolated and out-of-touch everyday, requiring him as the incumbent loser to work with Biden’s transition team. Trump got a dose of reality in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia. Judge Matthew W. Brann said Trump’s arguments “strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations.”
Judge Brann’s remarks mirror those of other swing state judges in Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia, all saying Trump’s lawyers provide no proof of widespread voters fraud. “In the United States of America, this cannot justify the disenfranchisement of a single voter, let alone all the voters of the sixth-most populated state. Our people, laws and institutions demand more,” Brann ruled. Trump faces similar reactions by federal judges wherever he’s challenged the vote. Instead of embarrassing himself, Trump should acknowledge that he’s leaving the White House sometime before Jan. 20, 2021. Elections in the U.S. are zero sum games, having a victor-and-a-vanquished. It’s difficult for Trump to imagine he’s been vanguised by someone he called “Sleepy Joe.” Biden seems anything but sleepy as he gets ready on Tuesday to name some key Cabinet postions, including Secretary of State.
When you think about why Trump lost the election, it had more to do with doing such a poor job challenging the Democrat and media narrative that he botched the Covid-19 crisis. Whether that was true or not, Democrats and the media convinced enough voters to back Biden and his 56-year-old Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris. Before derailed by a bout of Covid-19, Trump was well on his way to reelection. Getting Covid-19 three weeks before the election, made Biden’s point about Trump abysmal management of the virus. Whether Biden and Harris can do a better job with the virus is anyone’s guess. What’s known for sure is that Trump communication team, led by 32-year-old novice Hope Hickes, failed to counter the Democrat and media narrative that Trump mismanaged Covid-19. Now Trump lives with the consequences watching “Sleepy Joe” beat him at his own game.
Trump’s denial of reality must end soon, requiring him to call in the movers to take him and his family out of the White House. Whether admitted to or not, voters lost patience with Covid-19 and the recession, tossing millions of citizens out of their jobs. It didn’t matter to voters who would do a better job recovering from the Covid-19 recession. What mattered to voters is that they blamed Trump because he was president. Trump’s found out the hard way that if you have no facts, not real evidence to support your claims, courts don’t pay much attention. Brann’s rebuke in Philadelphia mirrors other states that can’t corroborate Trump’s wild allegations of voter fraud. What most people see clearly is that the public voting Trump out of office because they didn’t want to gamble on another four years. Trump’s only choice now is to call in the movers and prepare for civilian life.
