Trump believes - rightly or wrongly - that he won the Georgia election by a large margin if only lawful votes are counted. This belief is based on the not unreasonable grounds that Georgia has been a solid red state, that tens of thousands of people were showing up at his rallies (while almost none for China Joe), and certain questionable incidents resulting from the changes made in the election laws that might have affected more than the slim 11k vote margin (including that Biden received a disproportionate number of the mail in votes).
Well, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin were solid blue states until 2016 when Trump won them. No one stated that there must have been election fraud have changed these states. Changes in the election law are not uncommon. I think they are always tweaking the law. In some years they prune the voter lists more than other years. Just recently, a cousin of Martin Luther King Jr. was pruned form a list and unable to vote even though she hadn’t missed a Presidential election in over 40 years. We can’t declare an election invalid just because the election law was changed and the next election in a state was close.
Biden naturally received a disproportionate number of mail-in votes because he encouraged voters to mail in their ballots, because of COVID-19. Just as he discouraged large Democratic rallies. While Trump told his supporters not to mail in their ballots. So, we can’t declare this election invalid because Biden had such a high percentage of mail in ballots.
And Georgia has had a lot of people move in from out of state recently so it is natural that it’s voting pattern can change. Nothing is more common than changes in voting pattern over time for an individual state.
The media is spinning the call as a request to manufacture fake votes to allow Trump to steal Georgia. That is the typical negative spin. Trump is arguing that he won the election by a large margin (i.e. 400K votes) and that only a very small number of the unlawful votes against him need to be invalidated to change the outcome. In other words, the Georgia officials don't need to find all the hundreds of thousands of unlawful votes that Trump believes were counted are invalid but only a small number. That is a perfectly legitimate argument for him to make. Others may disagree that there is a factual basis for his claims but Trump has not suggested anything illegal about excluding unlawful votes.
This is an illegal call to pressure an election official for the votes he needs. It can’t be legal just because Trump claimed he was the real winner. If this defense is allowed, any corrupt politician and pressure an honest election official at will merely by stating that he is the true winner and the election official just has to find enough votes to partially make up for this. And be free to use his power the threaten or bribe or have others threaten him or his family. This cannot be allowed to happen merely because the corrupt politician continuously claims that he is the true winner.
The media also continues to falsely exaggerate reports that Georgia election officials and voters received death threats from Trump supporters. In fact, the FBI recently confirmed those are coming from Iran in an attempt to discredit Trump's efforts. A very real and confirmed example of foreign interference into our elections. But the media hardly mentions that because it is inconsistent with their desired narrative.
Threats of criminal prosecution alone are more than enough of a threat. Trump shouldn’t have been talking directly to an election official at all, let alone be making any threats. Any information he wishes the Secretary of State to have can be passed alone by attorneys, and does not have to be conveyed directly by the President who has such power to make direct threats. The Secretary of State of Georgia did not want to talk directly to Trump and had avoided it for weeks until Trump insisted on doing so even though it looks bad to have such a conservation.
If Biden is sworn in, do you want Biden to threaten Secretary of States of various states if he loses 2024 by 7 million votes?
Again, it is not time for you to abandon the principles of fiscally responsible government. But Trump doesn’t have to be the only possible champion of this. You need to find a new champion. A champion who is not fixated on stealing an election. And given how much the deficit has been recently, was Trump really ever a true champion? In any case I think it is possible that tomorrow’s senate race in Georgia will prove to all that a new champion needs to be found. We shall see.
