Biden won the election fair and square and but Trump has convinced his loyal follower that he won. The sad part it does not matter all news agencies called it is over.
Trump spent four years setting this up because he was not qualified for the job. But he is the most powerful man in the Republican party and he is going to make them pay for this loss.
Now Republicans have to go along with this dude because he has 70 million followers. Who is going to read every tweet and if he does not like you, you are political mud it is over?
Before this election, about two-thirds of people who said they had little to no confidence in the vote-counting process were supporters of the president, according to AP VoteCast data.
Trump has taken advantage of those doubts. Trump and his campaign have shared conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory about why votes were still being counted after Election Day, even though the counting process was going roughly according to plan.
“I am disturbed that this is being intentionally mischaracterized to undermine the election process,” Tina Barton, the Republican city clerk of Rochester Hills, Mich., said Friday in a video debunking one of the Trump campaign’s many claims
While these sorts of assertions largely have not found a receptive home in the courts, they have found one online. Trump tweets it they believe.
Social media groups have popped up in the days since voting stopped to spread disinformation about false cheating on the part of election officials, and in some cases organize in-person protests.
“This is the most intense online disinformation event in U.S. history and the pace of what we have found has only accelerated since [Election Day],” said Alex Stamos, director of the Stanford Internet Observatory and Facebook’s former chief security officer.
The social media groups are reusing channels that have previously been aimed at sharing other conspiracy theories that cater mostly to Republicans, says Melissa Ryan, who runs the firm Card Strategies, which researches disinformation.
“These ‘Stop The Steal’ protests are clearly building off the infrastructure from the reopen protests that we saw earlier in the year during the pandemic,” Ryan said. “And frankly, they’re using the same strategy and infrastructure as the Tea Party back in 2009, 2010.”
Trump has been the driving force of that misinformation online, however. Three of the four most popular posts on Facebook in the past 24 hours were posts by the president in which he falsely claimed victory or alluded to doubts about the election’s fairness.
“I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!” Trump said on Saturday.
Experts say as long as that language continues, it’s hard to imagine the U.S. uniting behind a Biden administration in the way the former vice president says he wants it to. Trump wants to mess up Biden’s chances of being a good President. By lying about this election period. It will work his followers are ridiculous.
A concession from Trump has no legal effect, and Biden will become the 46th president with or without one. But Alberto Gonzales, who served as U.S. attorney general under President George W. Bush, says an acknowledgment from Trump that he lost would go a long way to cool the current political climate. Trump is a baby and he wants to blow this democracy up he will start a Trump third party as followers can believe in. He is God to them period.
“That would send a tremendous signal,” Gonzales told NPR. “It would boost the reputation of President Trump. I think that would certainly lower the [country’s] temperature if he would do what is the right thing to do.”
