Being a heterodox free-thinker, students would occasionally ask if I believed in conspiracy theories. A group of people colluding on a secret plan to do something sneaky? Sure, conspiracies happen all the time. Of course they meant “conspiracy theories”, like faking the Moon landing or something along that line.
You shouldn’t read any further because I intend to discuss a conspiracy theory.
Election fraud got Joe Biden elected president in 2020.
Yes, I know that nobody is supposed to say that out loud. Cases of fraud were litigated or thrown out for lack of standing. Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felonies, but nobody can explain what he did wrong or why it was a big deal. The FBI opened an investigation on Donald Trump before he was even elected. There are corrupt people in our government, so there isn’t much reason to suspect that the instances of election fraud were thoroughly investigated or properly tried.
I’m just looking at the election numbers and what we are asked to believe. I put together an Excel spreadsheet using election data from Wikipedia. Prior to the 2000 election, Ross Perot was running as a third party candidate, so that messes with the trend.
In 2020, when Joe Biden ran against Donald Trump, the voter participation rate was 66.6%. That is the highest voter participation rate since the 19th century. Nothing about that election would inspire a record-setting voter participation. If anything, one would expect less voter participation as some voters were disillusioned by the DOJ and FBI harassment of Trump.
Here is another graph I produced showing absolute voter numbers.
People uninterested in politics may be enticed to vote if some aspect or quality of a candidate is unusually appealing. When Barack Obama was a candidate, he was seen as a cool, young Black man with a sharp intellect. Joe Biden was an old, White guy who had been in politics for decades. We are expected to believe that Joe Biden got 12 million more votes than Barack Obama’s first election?
By Obama’s second election, the novelty of a Black president was gone. Some people liked him, some people didn’t, but he was no longer as alluring or interesting. When the first woman, Hillary Clinton, ran for president, she accrued about as many votes as Obama did for his second term. Hillary wasn’t young, cool or interesting, but she was a woman.
Joe Biden wasn’t anything. Old, White, boring and without exceptional charisma. It isn’t plausible that four years after Hillary, 15 million additional voters chose him.
When Trump first announced that he was running for president, the conventional wisdom was that he had no chance. Trump was a rich celebrity who had never run for office. Some people liked him, some people didn’t, but nobody knew how he would govern. Running for his second term, Trump accrued an additional 11 million votes. That seems plausible. Many people enjoyed the peace and prosperity of the Trump term.
The 2024 presidential election was the most contentious election in my lifetime. Democrats called Trump and his supporters, fascists, a threat to democracy, evil and an existential threat. Republicans had had enough of the WOKE mentality pushing into all areas of popular culture and DEI policies running businesses. Riots were predicted regardless of the outcome. Voter participation was an unremarkable 60.3%.
I don’t know who tampered with the 2020 election, how it was done or how large of an impact it had. It’s likely that something like 10 million votes were added to the tally. It would take substantial data analysis to resolve where the tampering was done. The truth is out there, but I don’t have the resources to find it. I’ve just go the smoking gun.
Election integrity must be one of Trump’s highest priorities. State and federal jurisdiction will be an issue to be overcome. Trump should do whatever it takes. Democrats have stopped arguing that voter ID laws are racist, because it’s racist to assume that Black folks are too dumb to get a drivers license. However, California has passed a law making it illegal to require a photo ID to vote.
Clearly the voter participation sits at about 60%, with the voters being approximately split between the parties. When the Republican candidate wins, it’s usually by the electoral college, without winning the popular vote. Trump won both. He has two years to enhance voter integrity.
It’s scary how close America came to becoming a one party country.