Special Message - 11/9/2020 - The Recount Effort

The Recount Effort

It's been six days since the election. The media, including Fox News, and some Republicans, are demanding that the president concede.

Al Gore took 36 days to concede. Stacey Abrams, the 2018 Democrat candidate for governor of Georgia, never conceded. Neither did Hillary Clinton really. She still blames Russia for her loss!

Some people are suggesting that the race is not that close. They're wrong. Just a little over 85,000 votes separates Trump and Biden in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and Wisconsin. That's 85,000 votes out of more than 140 million votes cast.

Here's where things stand as of now:

President Trump is not conceding. When asked about a possible concession, a senior campaign advisor told reporters, "That word is not even in our vocabulary right now."
The Trump campaign has filed lawsuits in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania.
Justice Samuel Alito has ordered Pennsylvania to secure and segregate mail-in ballots received after Election Day.
The president is expected to hold rallies in the days ahead as the legal challenges work their way through the courts.

Meanwhile, many media commentators, including Fox News hosts except Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham, are all reading the same talking points. They are demanding that the president present evidence now about cheating and fraud.

Do these people not understand how the legal system works? First, you allege a crime. Then you file a lawsuit. In proceedings before the court, you have what is called "discovery." That's when you can require election officials to produce information.

The biggest indication that cheating and fraud happened is that in every swing state that Biden won, poll watchers were kept out of polling locations and party observers were kept out of ballot processing rooms. (Here, here and here.) Ballot integrity means that you cannot allow ballots to fall into the possession of one party while the ballots are being counted.

The evidence of likely fraud is that in many cases Democrats continued counting, even in defiance of court orders, without anyone from the Trump campaign or the GOP being allowed to observe the process.

If a cop sees someone hiding in an alley in the middle of the night and asks him to step out of the shadows but he instead swallows something, the officer has probably cause to arrest him.

When the big city Democrats prevented Republicans from observing the ballot counting process, that is probable cause to assume that cheating was taking place.

Does Fox think we are as dumb as Democrats think we are?