The Historical Flaws in the "Trump Won"
Argument
The premise of Trump's challenge to the election is that the turnout was
unprecedently high, so there must have been fraudulent votes for Biden to win
over 81 million votes.
The nationwide increase in turnout
from 1956 to 1960, when the first Catholic president was elected, was 10.9%,
compared to 15.8% in 2020 when the second Catholic president won. In 1960,
turnout was up 37.3% in Florida, 28.6% in South Carolina, 20.2% in Mississippi,
and 17.4% in North Carolina. In 2020, turnout in Georgia was up 20%,
Pennsylvania up 12.2%, Michigan up 13.6%, Wisconsin up 9.7%, and Arizona up
28.5%.
What possibly could have motivated
almost 700,000 more voters to register and over 750,000 more voters to cast
ballots in Arizona, a state that has voted for a Democrat for president only
once in the 72 years since 1948, and has produced two of the Republican Party's
presidential nominees? Maybe it was President Trump saying about John McCain, a
Vietnam Prisoner of War and Arizona Republican Congressman, Senator, and
presidential candidate, "He's not a war hero. He's a war hero because he
was captured. I like people who weren't captured." Such a comment coming
from someone who avoided service in the Vietnam War because of bone spurs in
his foot might anger people enough to come out and flip a state that Trump
carried with only 47% of the vote in 2016. And then there was Sheriff Joe
Arpaio, convicted of ignoring a court order to stop racial profiling, and who enjoyed
humiliating the prisoners in his jails by issuing them pink underwear to wear
underneath their jumpsuits was pardoned by Trump in a unique attempt to
undermine the rule of law. Perhaps the Hispanics, not all of whom are illegal
aliens as some would have us believe, were offended enough to register and get
out to vote for Biden. Trump has has relished sticking his finger in other
people's eyes for four years. On November 3rd, 81,283,485 voters
stuck it back.
The Federalist Magazine also
points to the Democratic losses in the House to posit Trump's coattails as
proof that he won. In 1960, the Democrats lost 22 seats in the House when
Kennedy prevailed.
The
voters turned out in the South in 1960 to keep the choice of the president in
the hands of the voters and out of the House of Representatives just like they
turned out in 2020 to evict Trump from the White House. In 2016, the
traditionally Democratic states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin
flipped for Trump. In 2020, the
normally Republican states of Georgia, Arizona, and Nebraska's second district
went for Biden, ensuring his victory.
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