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I’d be ecstatic if there was a computer error in WI that caused a 19,000+ switch in votes that, when corrected, would cut Trump’s deficit to only 1,500 votes. However, what Hot Air is claiming is that the final numbers in Rock County, WI were inverted, so that the true results were that Trump beat Biden in the county by 54.66% to 43.51% instead of Biden beating Trump by such amount. Trump got only 41.40% in Rock County in 2016, and the last time that a Republican presidential candidate carried that county was in the second Reagan landslide (1984). Yes, we have seen Trump win counties that we hadn’t won since Reagan, but usually Trump also had done really well there in 2016, not lose by over 10%. And Rock County is not dominated by a demographic group that swung wildly towards Trump between 2016 and 2020, such as Mexican-Americans in the Rio Grande Valley or Miami-Dade Latinos.

So the likeliest explanation for the discrepancy is that the original reported result of Trump winning the county by 9,500 votes was wrong because someone had input (or the computer assigned) the Biden number for Trump and vice versa, and that when the numbers were flipped later on it was a correction of the prior error. I hope that I’m wrong about this, but I doubt it. And while President Trump definitely should request a recanvassing and/or recount in Wisconsin, the margin that he needs to make up will be 20,000, not 1,500.