[MinorityRepublican]

John Madden allegedly said “don’t forget, there are THREE teams on the field every Sunday.” In turn, many coaches, after a close game where the outcome was potentially attributable to a bad call by a ref, will usually say “yeah, that was a bad call but we had plenty of opportunities to put it away but we didn’t execute.”

This applies to elections just as well.

Republicans have to overwhelm the opposing team so it doesn’t come down to a Bad Call or Tammany Hall tipping the scales.

We made it too big to rig in 2024. California took over a month to count their ballots. But we didn't need California.

[DoodleBob]

Exactly.

Trump won in 2016 via Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin where he won by 10,704, 44,292, and 22, 748 votes, respectively. That’s 77,744 votes. Those states has the smallest margins of victory and put him over the Electoral College top.

Biden’s margin of victory in 2020 came from Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin where he won* by 11,779, 10,457, and 20,682 votes, respectively. That’s only 42,918 votes.

In 2024, Trump won via Wisconsin Michigan and Pennsylvania by 29,397, 80,103, and 120,266 votes, respectively. That’s 229,766 votes.