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That is a crock. Trump would be calling it a valid outcome if he had won. There is no scenario under which Trump could ever lose an election without completely attributing the defeat to fraud, or to his opponent cheating. How do we know this? Because Trump even accused the 2016 Ted Cruz Campaign of cheating to win the Iowa Caucuses - also without ever offering any proof. Prior to both of the Presidential General Elections in which he has run, Trump signaled his intentions to blame any potential defeat on fraud well ahead of time.VW has said it isn’t about Trump but about securing future elections so there’s nothing to ask. Trump absolutely was pressuring Raff…to find what he believe to be the fraud that had occurred. Trump never said anything about trying to make stuff up to win. Septic believes it was implied and I imagine you do too but there’s no way to know. Raff held his ground and we are where we are. Trump won’t be punished for it because there is no “it”. There’s only assumptions of what Trump was thinking and that’s not enough to prove anything.
Imagine if all posters were held to the same standards for the links they share. I admit that I screwed the pooch trying to be silly with this one, but if the left leaning posters were as critical of what other left-leaning posters share, and if the right-leaning posters would expect a higher level of quality and validity from their own I believe the overall quality of discussion would improve.
We can't have one group being chastened for VerifiedNewsWithPulitzerWinningWriters dot com and the other being cheered on for rapid firing from OwnTheJerksWhoDisagreeWithYou dot com.
Left leaning posters? Really?! You don’t really consider yourself to be in the “middle”?
@hUTch2002 thinks you should let it go. The election is long over. LOL."These pointless audits" are about to happen In more states then just Arizona. "These pointless audits" are going to expose what has been going on in our elections for who knows how many years now.
Now you’re confusing points to try and solidly 2 completely different arguments. I’ll separate them into paragraphs for you.That is a crock. Trump would be calling it a valid outcome if he had won. There is no scenario under which Trump could ever lose an election without completely attributing the defeat to fraud, or to his opponent cheating. How do we know this? Because Trump even accused the 2016 Ted Cruz Campaign of cheating to win the Iowa Caucuses - also without ever offering any proof. Prior to both of the Presidential General Elections in which he has run, Trump signaled his intentions to blame any potential defeat on fraud well ahead of time.
To say that "it isn't about Trump" is ridiculous. It is about Trump's attempts to change the outcome. Trump told Raffensperger "to find" the votes he needed to win. Trump didn't just say "find the fraud" and leave it at that. No. Trump had a very specific number of votes in mind which needed to be impacted... and that number just so happened to be what he needed to win the state of Georgia.
That is at the heart of this whole thing: Trump exerting his considerable political influence among Republicans in Georgia and Arizona, to try and reverse the outcome of an election which he had lost.
Your Trump obsession is what needs to be let go. Trying to make sure elections are secure makes sense to me. I don’t care what your deal is with Trump, both sides of the aisle had issues with the voting machines that were used before the election. It doesn’t hurt to make sure we have future elections secured properly.@hUTch2002 thinks you should let it go. The election is long over. LOL.
people you know...like in academia? lolIt depends on the lens by which you're judging positions. The Overton Window here is also much further right than the general population of the country.
If you want to consider me to be a Leftist, you'll find whatever proof you need to do so and use whatever frame of reference you choose to back it up. Outside of this board, I tend to be the more right leaning of most of the people I know. Examining the academic definitions, I am a right moderate.
Call me what you will. I know who I am.
@hUTch2002 thinks you should let it go. The election is long over. LOL.
From James Comey's letter to Russian meddling on social media, Hillary Clinton made a lot of excuses for losing the 2016 presidential election. She also accused the 2016 Trump Campaign of coordinating their efforts with Russian agents in their social media attacks against her, but she never said that her loss was the result of fraud. No democratic party nominee for president, including Al Gore, has ever blamed their losing a presidential general election on fraudulent activity. To the contrary, Hillary Clinton gave a gracious concession speech the day after the 2016 presidential election, in which she acknowledged Trump's victory and congratulated him. Those are two things which Trump has still never done for Biden. Had Biden lost, there is nothing to indicate that he wouldn't have conceded defeat and moved on. For what it's worth, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton both attended Donald Trump's inauguration on January 20, 2017.Regarding Trump’s GA loss…of course he would be calling it valid had he won just like the Dems would be crying fraud had Biden lost. Duh!
This is a brazen lie. The entire thing wasn't about fraud. Trump cited a very specific number of votes in his conversation with Brad Raffensperger, and he didn't just pull some random number out of his butt either. The number of votes Trump said that he wanted Raffensperger "to find" was 11,780... which was what he needed to win Georgia. If the "entire thing" had been about uncovering fraud, Trump would not have been so specific about how many votes he wanted to be impacted. At least to some extent, it was also about Trump attempting to overturn the outcome in Georgia, and he was applying pressure to a state-level official, Brad Raffensperger, in order to achieve that end.No doubt he was pressuring Raff but the entire thing was about fraud.
I have heard the entire conversation as well. It was a very inappropriate call for the President of the United States to make. Nothing has been taken out of context. You might have an argument to make if Trump hadn't been so specific with Raffensperger concerning the number of votes he needed him "to find"... and if that number (11,780) wasn't also Biden's margin of victory plus one.Again, I’ve heard the whole conversation and you’re taking parts out of context.
This is a brazen lie. The entire thing wasn't about fraud. Trump cited a very specific number of votes in his conversation with Brad Raffensperger, and he didn't just pull some random number out of his butt either. The number of votes Trump said that he wanted Raffensperger "to find" was 11,780... which was what he needed to win Georgia. If the "entire thing" had been about uncovering fraud, Trump would not have been so specific about how many votes he wanted to be impacted. At least to some extent, it was also about Trump attempting to overturn the outcome in Georgia, and he was applying pressure to a state-level official, Brad Raffensperger, in order to achieve that end.
It's already been done twice. Republicans in Arizona just didn't like the findings... so now, they are giving the "Cyber Ninjas" a try.Your Trump obsession is what needs to be let go. Trying to make sure elections are secure makes sense to me. I don’t care what your deal is with Trump, both sides of the aisle had issues with the voting machines that were used before the election. It doesn’t hurt to make sure we have future elections secured properly.
If others can post like this, I figured I could have some fun too. Random full word capitalizations, unverifiable claims, pay walls.
Damnit, I forgot to insult large groups of people and make veiled threats about the future of our country. I'll try harder next time.