By Newt Gingrich
On Sept. 29, during the first presidential debate, Joe Biden told the American people that he would not declare victory until the election was independently certified. But when the liberal news media called Pennsylvania for Biden last Saturday, the Democratic nominee held a party in Delaware that night to claim victory.
It’s critically important for all Americans to understand that this election is not over until every legal vote is counted and the states go through their processes of certification. This is so important. We are a constitutional republic, not a mob-ruled mass democracy under which things change instantly when some group wants them to change.
In other words, there is a clear, constitutional process we must follow that was created by the Founding Fathers and has guided every election since 1789. Our Founders thought deeply about how to hold honest elections and how to have a president who was picked in such a way that guaranteed wisdom rather than passion. They understood the necessity of using a system, not a mob.
On this week’s episode of my podcast, “Newt’s World,” I outline our constitutional process of deciding elections in detail, explain why it’s essential to follow, and discuss the urgency of fostering trust in our electoral system by ridding it of fraud.
I also go through the six states that matter in this election — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — showing how close some of the votes are and clear, egregious examples of voting irregularities.
We shouldn’t be surprised that the news media is doing all it can to make sure we ignore these irregularities and accept that Trump lost. In the first 100 days after House Democrats began their impeachment push against the president, for example, 93 percent of Trump coverage on ABC, CBS, and NBC was negative, according to the Media Research Center. Moreover, a Pew Research Study from 2017 found that stories about Trump’s first 100 days were four times as likely to carry a negative assessment than a positive one. And that was during his first few months in office — what’s known as the honeymoon period for a president.
Such hostility toward conservative views is in part why an astonishing 70 percent of Republicans said in a recent poll that they don’t believe that Biden won a free and fair election. That level of distrust is a threat to the stability of our system and must be taken seriously, not discarded.
I hope you will listen to this week’s episode to learn about the importance of following the constitutional process and protecting the integrity of our elections.
We must correct the voting system and rid it of fraud before the next election. If we don’t root out problems like transparency in vote counting (each side should be in the room as observers), dead people casting ballots, and people double voting (through an absentee ballot and in person), we will never be able to ensure credible election outcomes in the future.
