In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal Karl Rove advises President Trump and his supporters that the election is over and Trump lost:
There are only three statewide contests in the past half-century in which recounts changed the outcome: the 1974 New Hampshire Senate race, the 2004 Washington governor’s contest, and the 2008 Minnesota Senate election. The candidates in these races were separated, respectively, by 355, 261 and 215 votes after Election Day.
These margins aren’t much like today’s. Mr. Biden led Wednesday in Wisconsin by 20,540 votes, Pennsylvania by 49,064, Michigan by 146,123, Arizona by 12,614, Nevada by 36,870 and Georgia by 14,108.
To win, Mr. Trump must prove systemic fraud, with illegal votes in the tens of thousands. There is no evidence of that so far. Unless some emerges quickly, the president’s chances in court will decline precipitously when states start certifying results, as Georgia will on Nov. 20, followed by Pennsylvania and Michigan on Nov. 23, Arizona on Nov. 30, and Wisconsin and Nevada on Dec. 1. By seating one candidate’s electors, these certifications will raise the legal bar to overturn state results and make it even more difficult for Mr. Trump to prevail before the Electoral College meets Dec. 14.
While I am confident that the Trump campaign will be able to find incidental wrongdoing on the part of voters, election judges, boards of elections, and others, they’ll need much, much more than that to overturn the election. The remedy for those incidents will be to disqualify a few votes not the large reversals that Trump needs to win. It’s over.
zIn PA, the only vote they have found that sounds legitimately illegal so far was a vote that was mailed out after someone died. Sounds like the person actually filled out the ballot then died. Family member mailed it. Not a vote that should count. Not fraud.
Over it is.
But the media seems to be treating this as a thorough repudiation of Trump and his policies. Their glee is putrid.
Look at the numbers, can you represent the country and pretend 49% of the voters are an immaterial basket of deplorables?
The left should feel cautious but AOC is now threatening moderate Democrats again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPFn0J32PoU
We’d all best pray for two Republican senators in Alabama, or the emboldened socialists will fracture the nation.
It’s the Pauline Kael phenomenon. They don’t know anyone who voted for Trump.