Oddbean

Just my 2 sats but that feels like an easy out. He also ran a bad campaign and people were very upset about how his administration handled the Covid response, and then he tried to overturn certified electoral results, even his own handpicked VP puppet refused to go along with that. I don’t know what will happen next month, but the pendulum has been known to swing. Both the 2000 and 2016 elections were a surprise to everyone who thought they would go the other way. Polls don’t matter. Popular vote count doesn’t matter. It only comes down to turnout in a few states.

It's even easier to pretend election fraud isn't a problem. More votes than registered voters? Voter rolls filled with dead voters? Whole counties going 100% Biden? Republican poll workers being locked out and the windows being boarded up while ballots are counted? Ballots being shredded illegally? Trump getting more votes than anyone ever in history and then Biden still topping that, all while essentially not campaigning? Hundreds of thousands of ballots being found for Biden whenever he was behind in the count? The counting took weeks when most elections are finished in days? Millions of mail in ballots sent out across the country to people who didn't even ask for them? The postmaster general on record saying "We're only delivering for our guy" when political-related mail was going missing and Republican ballots weren't being delivered? It doesn't matter if these problems affected the election or not. These are all critical issues that have the potential to undermine the integrity of the whole system.