People think slavery was long ago.
Someone died today who was *in his mother's pregnant belly* when she spoke to a person who had been enslaved.
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Micheal Harriot is a fantastic story teller.
In Trump’s latest tweet he said Biden needs to prove that his 80M votes are legit. So this is the new play, reverse onus. Too bad for him that it won’t hold up in court, as anyone who believes in any sort of legal justice knows that the burden of proof is on the accuser. This guy is so passé it’s become boring now. January 20th can’t come quick enough. Just 54 days left.
Trump can’t make up the rules as he goes via Twitter.
Plus if he’s challenging Biden to prove his votes then it follows that Trump has to prove all of his too. And since he has less votes than Biden to begin with, then… we all know how that will work out for him.
I certainly don’t want to sound like I believe the election was rigged conspiracy, but it was kinda amazing that Trump also lost with the most # of popular votes ever! He won with 63 million votes in 2016 and lost this time around with 74 million votes!
Obama’s landslide victory back in 2008 was only 70 million votes...
Basically more than 10 million voters who didn’t vote for trump the 1st time decided to do so the 2nd time around...
Also more than 10 million voters who didn’t voted for Obama turned out for Biden!
Hope it’s really the Political polarization that energized voter turnout... anyway, at least there no proof of voter fraud so far.
Which thankfully is proving to be true in the courts. I think he's 1 in 36 now, including a few smackdowns by his own appointees.
Billi - I have a feeling a lot of the voter turnout was due to major work to make it easier to vote. Improved access to mail in, early voting, dropboxes. I'd love to see the numbers when we're done, but I think solid attempts to improve access to voting around the pandemic has helped turn out the vote a lot more. I also know that this is the first time in my life I can think of where some companies made election day a holiday so people could vote. I'd love to see those things continue when/if the pandemic passes.
I totally agree with your reasons for Biden’s record win, but can those also be the reasons for Trump’s record loss?
This election has been really weird for sure. Such as most polls predicted things wrong...
My personal conspiracy is that Trump the incumbent rigged the election and figured 11million more votes ought to be enough... they cheated and they still lost so that’s why they couldn’t admit defeat!