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Trump’s Election Reversal Dreams Are Dead
The New York Times ^ | Oct. 24, 2024, 5:05 a.m. ET | David French

Posted on 10/24/2024 12:37:59 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

As we approach Election Day, I’m cautiously optimistic — not so much about the outcome of the election (it’s way too close for either side to feel confident), but rather about the durability and integrity of the process itself. The legal arguments Donald Trump used to try to reverse the election outcome in 2020 have been decisively rejected, and the legal loopholes he tried to open have been closed.

I’m not arguing that we should be complacent. We should expect MAGA lawyers to bombard courts and state legislatures with frivolous arguments to try to reverse the outcome if Trump loses — and we shouldn’t be shocked or surprised if MAGA ultimately resorts to violence like it did on Jan. 6 — but I don’t think most Americans know how well our election system has been fortified against Trump’s legal schemes. He can’t run the same playbook he ran in 2020.

To understand how we’ve changed our system, it’s necessary to understand the Trump team’s strategy leading up to Jan. 6. As I’ve explained before, it had two key components: the conspiracy theory and the coup theory.

The conspiracy theory was the election lie itself, that Trump had been cheated out of an electoral victory that was rightly his. This required him to essentially commandeer a compliant and corrupt right-wing media establishment to broadcast his election lies to tens of millions of angry and disappointed Republicans.

The conspiracy theory created the demand for the coup. Without right-wing rage, there would be no appetite to try to overturn the election. And stealing the election required a legal plan.

And that brings us to the coup theory, the actual legal mechanism for overturning the election. The core plan was called operation “Green Bay Sweep.” It was named after an...

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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: davidfrench; greenbaysweep; jan6; mediawingofthednc; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; smear; tds; tdsbs
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In the wee hours of the morning following Election Day 2020, hundreds of thousands of “votes” for Joe Biden showed up from out of nowhere in the six states that had unprecedentedly stopped counting the night before. Those ballots were almost exclusively marked for the Presidential race. They contained almost no votes for down-ballot candidates, which explains the following:

OBAMA 2008
69,000,000 votes
Wins 873 Counties
Wins 18 of 19 Bellwether counties
Wins Florida, Ohio, and Iowa
Wins House seats
WINS ELECTION

TRUMP 2020
74,000,000 votes
Wins 2497 Counties
Wins 18 of 19 Bellwether counties
Wins Florida, Ohio, and Iowa
Wins House seats
LOSES ELECTION

BIDEN 2020
81,000,000 votes
Wins 477 Counties
LOSES 18 of 19 Bellwether counties
LOSES Florida, Ohio, and Iowa
LOSES House seats
WINS ELECTION


1 posted on 10/24/2024 12:37:59 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Every time I see that chart, I want CW II to start in earnest. We’re not reversing and saving the country at the ballot box.


2 posted on 10/24/2024 12:40:50 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Why do post articles written by such a poor excuse of a human being as the evil David French?


3 posted on 10/24/2024 12:43:06 PM PDT by Greg123456
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

NYT October 2024 — “We have successfully guarded our elections. They cannot be overturned. We are safe.”

NYT November 2024 — “These results will not stand. We can overturn this. We have endless legal options. We must fight.”


4 posted on 10/24/2024 12:46:06 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“We got away with it.”


5 posted on 10/24/2024 12:47:07 PM PDT by MMusson ( )
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To: Greg123456
Because some people still regard french as a "conservative".

And such people need to be exposed repeatedly to what he is to believe it.

If you are not such a one and have no contact with such people you can skip by merrily on your way to happier things.

6 posted on 10/24/2024 12:53:06 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Ahh yes, this puzzy again. Leftist Dweeb.


7 posted on 10/24/2024 12:53:57 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: CatOwner

Fact

No way voting stops tyranny. Rifles and bayonets do.


8 posted on 10/24/2024 12:55:03 PM PDT by InsidiousMongo
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To: DAC21

It’s easy to spot demonic pedos. They look like spineless jellyfish like this goober.


9 posted on 10/24/2024 12:55:51 PM PDT by InsidiousMongo
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To: Greg123456

So that we don’t live in an echo chamber the way the Left does.


10 posted on 10/24/2024 1:08:05 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Also, check the three Benford Analysis charts for Wisconsin. Note that Milwaukee County provided the margin that Biden needed to win.

I ran all these using Wisconsin's return data.

11 posted on 10/24/2024 1:15:17 PM PDT by budj (Combat vet, second of three generations.)
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To: CatOwner

More proof that the New York Times is GARBAGE!!!


12 posted on 10/24/2024 1:16:50 PM PDT by stubernx98 (cranky, but reasonable)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Well David French, I want everyone involved in corrupting the 2020 election to go to prison. I want the *JUDGES* who didn't do their duty and declare the corrupt elections invalid, to go to prison.

We have a lot of judges in this nation who need to be sent to prison.

I want investigations and arrests. Raffensperger needs to go to prison. Katie Hobbs needs to go to prison. That Judge in Arizona that would not allow evidence to be heard, he needs to go to prison.

13 posted on 10/24/2024 1:20:07 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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I looked up Benford's Law: "Benford's law describes the relative frequency distribution for leading digits of numbers in datasets. Leading digits with smaller values occur more frequently than larger values. This law states that approximately 30% of numbers start with a 1 while less than 5% start with a 9."

I confess I am totally baffled about what it means in terms of your charts.

14 posted on 10/24/2024 1:20:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

French and the rest of the cuckian “conservatives” believe if Trump is defeated, MAGA goes down and the republican party will return to his favored iteration of affable losers. I can’t see Trump’s (presumed) conversion of black men and hispanics, along with many new, formerly uninterest voters, ever “returning” to support the likes of French, Kristol, and similar erstwhile Republicans.


15 posted on 10/24/2024 1:32:13 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

IIRC - that analysis is used to evaluate a data set for potential manipulation & uses the frequency of the leading digit distribution as an indicator. It’s been a minute since I was exposed to that so I might not be as informational as you require for a full understanding.


16 posted on 10/24/2024 1:35:37 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I remember it well, unfortunately. What a black night that was. Damn them.


17 posted on 10/24/2024 1:41:09 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’d like to know what happened on Election Night when the most incredible miracle occurred. What we know is that they sent the ballot counting staff away with silly excuses.
Then the boxes started arriving at those centers.
But what happened? Did the Democrats already have the boxes ready knowing the debacle that was coming, or did they start filling out ballots at a forced pace?
Is it suspicious that the ballots only had the box for president marked?


18 posted on 10/24/2024 1:44:28 PM PDT by californian by choice (Who are those who believe in science?)
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To: DAC21

ought to clean his beard better-— little protein bits from the last puffing fest. R. Lee Ermey— RIP for his inauguration of a “peter puffer”. Here’s one in this photo.


19 posted on 10/24/2024 1:52:49 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: T-Bird45

This explains it pretty well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=7uhAn19V1EY&t=87


20 posted on 10/24/2024 1:55:23 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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