Former President Donald Trump isn’t the first candidate to seriously contest an election, and sadly he won’t be the last.
However, while former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams have attempted to make a case to dispute their historic losses, Donald Trump simply has simply stuck by the same story that the election was somehow stolen.
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It’s his story, and he’s sticking to it.
“There was so much Voter Fraud & Irregularities in the 2020 Presidential Election that it amazes me how weak and ineffective FoxNews is at portraying itself in the lawsuit against them. They look too scared and frightened to reveal the massive amounts of voter fraud & Irregularities already found, and it would actually help them in the lawsuit. Instead FoxNews wants to silence its anchors and reporters, the reason so many of their viewers fled. The Election was that of a Third World Country!,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform on Tuesday.
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Donald Trump Doesn’t Even Believe It
The former president’s tirade follows reports that numerous Fox News hosts admitted they knew that Trump lost the 2020 election.
Among the hosts was Sean Hannity, who said under oath, “I did not believe it for one second.”
Following the election, Donald Trump and his legal team attempted to overturn the results, despite evidence that the former president allegedly admitted in private that he had lost.
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During testimony to the January 6 Committee, Alyssa Farah, a former White House aide, said that a week after the election was called in favor of Biden, Donald Trump was watching Biden on the television in the Oval Office, and was reported to have said: “‘Can you believe I lost to this effing guy?'”
In another new clip of testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, testified that Trump told Meadows: “I don’t want people to know we lost, Mark. This is embarrassing. Figure it out.”
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New Tactic – Call the Other Side Illegitimate
In fairness to Trump, after winning the 2016 election he was routinely labeled an illegitimate president by the likes of Secretary Clinton, former president Jimmy Carter, the late Rep. John Lewis (D-Georgia), and even the newly elected House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries.
However, there is still a difference between being labeled “illegitimate” and declaring an election was stolen — especially as there remains no evidence that there was widespread voter fraud.
Trump lost because of a number of reasons, including the fact that the Covid-19 pandemic shut down the country and he largely failed to respond.
Likewise, then-candidate Joe Biden made a better case to the American people and simply succeeded in getting out more votes than Trump – who for the record still had a larger turnout than any former presidential candidate.
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Trump should play up on that point, and work to change the minds of moderate voters.
Instead, by continuing to push the big lie, Donald Trump will fail to make his case for why he should be the GOP’s nominee next year. Trump should run against Biden’s record and needs to put the election denial behind him.
It doesn’t help his cause, and instead will likely cost him the nomination a year from now.
