It wasn't that close. The illusion of closeness was an artifact of the order of reporting results, exactly as the GOP designed it to be when they stopped states from processing and counting early votes until ED.
The amazing thing was this ALL played out almost exactly as trump and his enablers said it would and we all knew his playbook. Yet his voters are too stupid to understand the only reason he planned this out was he
knew he was going to suffer a fairly significant loss in the popular vote.
*He lied early and often about how the only way he could lose would be by fraud committed by Democrats.
*The republicans offered their usual attempts at voter suppression such as closing polling stations in areas with lots of poor people and people of color (which thankfully were blunted by so much early and mailed in voting).
*Like clockwork trump claimed victory before the polls were closed and he had predictably large leads in states we all KNEW would be counting for days after November 3rd.
*Absolutely refused to concede or even barely acknowledge there was even a chance he would not be president after January 20, 2021.
*Engaged in frivolous legal actions without offering a shred of evidence of illegal voting or fraud of any kind.
*Spent days tweeting about a stolen election and prepared his mouthpieces and enablers to take to the airwaves and internet to spread lies about the elections.
*Attempts to influence state office holders to overturn duly certified elections.
*Finally, back-door encouragement of his enablers to foment violence directed at people who crossed him by declaring election results he found unappealing.
Every one of these points were made by at least one of us, and most of us made them all at one time or another since the summer. And now we have a retired 3-star general saying trump needs to declare martial law and overturn the election.
But because we haven't seen tanks in the streets or widespread right-wing terrorism, its all OK, right?
