At his core, Rand Paul, with that one statement, proves he is a weasel.
Only if you look at it not in it’s entirety.
You shave a few votes from one side, 3 or 4 different ways, and then you pump the other side up, 3 or 4 different ways, and before long you do get an impact on the outcome. A drippy faucet will fill the bucket just like a slow leak on your radiator will eventually cause you to run out off coolant.
Calling the elections early for Biden but late for Trump. Lots of mail in ballots, but close the in person polls early at 7PM (folks that plan to vote after work). Most of these elections are not landslides, they are where one candidate has a slight lead over the other. In that world, if you nudge the numbers slightly (manipulating the process itself and with media influence) but do it a few different times, both for the guy you want, and against the guy you don’t want, you suddenly get the outcome that is desired.
It’s the bigger picture here.