We are just a week from the 2024 election. According to recent polls, approximately one-third of Americans still believe that the 2020 election was stolen. This is why I believe it was not.
William Barr, the attorney general at the time, who is a Republican and who had access to the FBI investigations, said there was no widespread fraud. He said this knowing he would likely lose his job, but he had the guts to say it anyway. He lost his job.
Christopher Krebs, the head of CISA and a Republican, said the election was secure. He said this knowing he would likely lose his job, but he had the guts to say it anyway. He lost his job.
Georgia’s Governor (Kemp) and Georgia’s Secretary of State (Raffensperger) are both Republicans and stood by the Georgia election results. They went through painstakingly detailed recounts and audits, proving repeatedly that Biden won Georgia. Yet for defending the honest democratic voting process they were pressured to produce different results and even threatened with physical violence.
Similar pressure has been brought to bear on honest hard-working public officials in Michigan, Arizona, and Pennsylvania. And yet these states’ leadership consistently stood by their results.
After months of recounts and millions of dollars, Cyber Ninja, the company hired by Arizona Senate Republicans to challenge the 2020 election results in Maricopa County Arizona, conceded that their results matched the county’s results.
Trump and supporters brought over 60 lawsuits contesting the election results. All lawsuits have been denied, dismissed, or withdrawn. Many of the judges who reviewed these cases were Republicans or Republican appointees. No proof was ever produced during these lawsuits that would prove widespread fraud. Significantly no lawsuit alleging fraud was brought in any state that Trump won.
And so, I believe Trump lost the election. It follows, then, that all the efforts to overturn the election were treasonous — the fake electors, the pressure on Pence, the pressure on state legislators and other state officials. Therefore, I cannot support Donald Trump for public office in the upcoming election. I am satisfied with what the people close to the elections have told me — the people who executed and oversaw the election. They say Joe Biden won. And he won by a lot — by 7,060,141 votes. There was only one problem with the 2020 election and that was, one of the contestants couldn’t handle the truth. And the actions he took were un-American and undermine our democracy.
Celia Domich
Ely