Posted on 09/11/2020 8:24:01 AM PDT by Red Badger
Concern is rising about what would happen if President Donald Trump loses the November election and refuses to concede, perhaps by claiming victory based on early returns before the mail-in ballots are counted or through some similar maneuver. Would his supporters in this "doomsday scenario" take to the streets and Trump refuse to leave office?
These are real worries. But there's another one that looms almost as large and gets far less attention: Would Democrats and others on the left accept the presidential results as legitimate if Trump wins? There's reason to believe they might not - and there are steps Trump and others could take now to bolster his legitimacy if he wins in November. It starts by making sure we have a fair vote.
It's easy to come up with a scenario where Trump ekes out a narrow victory in states like Georgia and Florida but Democrats blame Georgia voter suppression and the fight to keep former felons from voting in Florida as the reason for Trump's victory. A democracy depends upon the losers believing the election was mostly fair and agreeing to fight another day, rather than engage in protests and attempts to stop an unfairly chosen leader from serving. If one side sees the other side as consistently cheating, the very premise of democracy is undermined.
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Given....Captain Obvious alert here.
Well that will be a two way street if Biden is declared the winner by the media.
The GOP won’t trust them if Biden wins.
This is the result of their 4 year Russia hoax.
But we were told that would be unAmerican.
Leftists are pure scum.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Yeah, unlike 2016, when they were calling for impeachment before the sun rose on the following day after the election.
But they’ll accept them if Biden just barely wins; deny them when Trump wins by a landslide.
Que the Fleetwood Mac tune, Landslide. They are going to get their backside kicked.
News flash! Some young staff intern ran in breathlessly with that bulletin and told the astonished WaPo editors.
You think things were interesting in 2019? 2020 blew it out of the water, and 2020 is gonna end with a bang.
And 2021 will leave ‘em all in the dust.
Ammo up. Seriously.
” It starts by making sure we have a fair vote.”
It doesn’t, because the Democrats have made it clear that they want an *unfair* vote, one that assures them victory, regardless.
In 2016, the Left had already decided that Hillary had won, before the election. They never thought she’d lose. It was a foregone conclusion. Then the numbers came in, and a different story was told.
They’ve learned from this.
For 2020, the Left had already decided that Joe will win. For them, this is a stone-cold fact. The numbers won’t matter. Joe will not concede. Vote counting will continue for weeks if necessary. Trump will simply not be declared the winner. Joe is the winner. They know this already, and this time it’s not a case of “We are really confident”, this time it’s a case of “We’ve already decided that Joe is the winner. The election doesn’t matter.”
Republicans may not trust the results of the election if Biden wins
Many of us also won’t trust a Biden win result.
Who would believe a majority wants a senile idiot leading us?
Joe Biden should not concede under any circumstances. -Hillary Clinton
Given their delusions and ability to lie, of course.
I want to see videos of leftists weeping and wailing inconsolably again.
What fun.
rather than engage in protests and attempts to stop an unfairly chosen leader from serving.
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Which is precisely what we’ve been seeing since 2016 from the Democrats even though Hillary lost fair and square.
Democratic strategy is to contest every election in court. It gives them an automatic second bite at the Apple with at least a fifty percent chance they can win in court what they can’t win in the voting booth. The other strategy is to declare they really won and the other side stole their win. (The black womab running for governor of Georgia cones to mind.)
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