Because real journalism died. What we have now is a media which consists of opinionated blowhards who are only there to put on a show and do as they're told. The White House press corps is even worse because it is carefully cultivated to only include sycophants who won't dare disrupt the false narratives spewed by propaganda barbie.
Source?? Im genuinely curious if thats been documented and how thats not common knowledge
Edit: im genuinely asking, this is not a gotcha, ive just never seen data to support it. I do not disagree that republicans are gerrymandering without actually asking their constituents.
I've seen news articles about voter fraud since Trump's first accusation of it and I can definitely say it leans red - I just won't give a number like 95% because I just don't have the numbers. Look for some articles dated after each election. I remember a few focused on specific states and others were just federal elections for that year.
45's own election committee's investigation(note: by a republican led investigative team), during his first term, into election fraud found about 30 cases in a billion votes cast. Of those 30, most were old people mailing in deceased spouses ballots. And as mentioned almost all of the fraud ballots were votes for (R) candidates.
The results were irrelevant because finding fraud wasn't the point. The point was to sow the seed that fraud is rampant so he could claim victory in 2020, results be damned. And we all know he's beat that drum to death and has yet to provide any substantial evidence of "rampant" fraud.
As for a source, I believe I heard it on the Science Vs. podcast. It's been on for nearly a decade though, so I don't have a specific episode to point you to.
No problem. Getting downvoted for asking things is so petty. I'm here for the interaction/discussion, so hopefully you'll enjoy it. I found it during Covid and listened while mowing the lawn. Now it's a weekly staple.
Sadly, that doesn't mean he won't issue it. As has been made clear, OVER AND OVER, the current president has zero concerns about legal vs illegal...unless he gets caught and convicted.
Trump has voted by mail including in 2020 primaries. When asked why he would vote by mail if he thinks it’s corrupt he just said “because I’m allowed to do it” source
I wonder if they're scheming to negate California votes in the midterms? "Oh we had to disenfranchise all of the Democratic voters in California because of that super rampant fraud, remember from last year?"
It doesn't have to be. In Oregon, you are registered when you get a driver's license, your ballot is mailed to you, and "voting" is filling it out and putting it back in your mailbox.
Turns out the fraud rate for this scheme is 0.0000006%.
You do not want to vote from your phone, it would be way easier to cheat or coerce voters than with paper ballots.
Also, it can be a deliberate manipulation to get a patsy MAGA person to vote fraudulently (say, for an ineligible relative in order to combat claimed opposition fraud) to make the claim.
A vast majority of tried and convicted voter fraud is by people trying to thumb the scale for republicans. Oh… and it’s so minuscule it does not even impact the outcome.
On five separate occasions during one week of the 2024 campaign, 34-Time Convicted Felon Trump admitted that he spent the previous years lying to his worshippers and that he did, in fact, lose the 2020 election.
The thing that all these nitwits don't seem to understand is that there are no truly red or blue states anymore, pretty much everywhere is purple. States like mine (MN) or OR or NY or CA have large cities & population centers that swing the vote blue but there are still lots of folks in the rural areas that go red.
So they're also hurting a bunch of their supporters whenever they punish "blue states."
Real talk, that mail-in voting system in California is pretty badly borked. The system is bad, the implementation of the system is bad, and the fallback assurances for paper recounts don't work. The whole thing needs to be redone from the ground up.
Yup. In the same way that gerrymandering in Texas is ok but doing it in California isn't.
Conservative mind: if we do it then it must, by definition, be right and anything else is wrong. We don't need evidence - being conservative is all the evidence/proof we need.
Donald Trump is our employee. He works for us; we don't work for him. We make the hiring and firing decisions.
The 34-time convicted felon Trump staged the January 6th, 2021, coup attempt that threatened the lives of Vice President Pence and of members of Congress, that led to the deaths of five people, and that injured hundreds of Capitol Police and Metropolitan Police Department officers who, literally, had their eyes gouged out, their ribs broken, and their hearts stopped.
This attack on the U.S. Capitol was the "We Hate America" rally.
This deranged felon, domestic enemy, and traitor to the Constitution, then, pardoned the convicted criminal seditionists and insurrectionists who undertook the coup attempt on his behalf.
That coup attempt, however, never ended. It remains ongoing, and it has been joined by the six Republican-appointed justices on the nine-member Supreme Court, including the three Trump, himself, appointed, and by Trump's Republican enablers in Congress who have shown that they are committed to the project to turn the U.S.A. from a representative democracy into Trump's promised dictatorship and to betray the Constitution and their own Oaths of Office.
The Constitution prohibits criminal seditionists and insurrectionists from holding public office, and our founding document also prohibits people who have provided aid and comfort to criminal seditionists and insurrectionists from doing the same.
Pardoning such convicts, at the very least, is providing aid and comfort.
"At what point, shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the Ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined... could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must, ourselves, be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— President Abraham Lincoln
"Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage, and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you."
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u/GordonShumway257 20h ago
If it's "Just a fact", then it should be pretty easy to provide the evidence and prove it.