Cornered
like Scared Goat and Nowhere to Turn
My synopsis of this post comes
from this AP article and
headline:
“100 Days: Trump faces headwinds as Election Day draws near”
Political headwinds have
sparked a sudden summer shift in the White House and the Trump campaign’s 2020
strategy – examples:
1.
After spending
months playing down the pandemic and largely ignoring the virus’ resurgence in
several states: Trump warned this past week that the situation is likely to get
worse before it gets better after he said: “... it would disappear in
April – just go away like a miracle.”
2.
After repeatedly
minimizing the importance of wearing masks to limit the spread of the virus: Trump now urges Americans to wear a mask saying it is “patriotic to wear one.”
3.
After insisting
he would press forward with a large campaign convention in August in
Jacksonville, FL after cancelling it in NC earlier he now announces he will be scrapping those plans and “hold tele-rallies
instead as a safety precaution.”
The man is incorrigible and
he proves it now every single day and it is apt to get worse between now and
November 3.
His primary focus will be on smearing Biden and his son, and probably
seeking foreign help like he asked the newly-elected Ukraine president “... to do us a favor and find corruption dirt on Joe Biden,” or telling Putin jokingly: “Don't meddle in 2020” both of them knowing
full and well that Russia did in 2016 with their mega-internet smearing campaign
documented and proven by our entire intelligence community reporting and 100% confirmation.
Yet, Trump still does not believe that and often jokes about calling it a “hoax
or fake news or a DEM ploy to hurt him.”
My #1 concern and everyone
else’s too must always be the welfare of the country, our foundation, and our future
first and foremost.
That comes on top of solving this
horrible virus pandemic, the economy, and helping so many needy Americans hurting
due to those two major issues right now.
All that depends right now on
protecting our voting rights – the foundation of our nation that says our voting
rights must be easy, fair, and free. Right now Trump’s main is his overwhelming
fear of losing in November.
He already said that and is now going full-bore in peddling a wild conspiracy
theory that “mail-in voting is corrupt, fraudulent, and rigged.”
Notes from expert research at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU and other places, is this reminder of voting by mail: Mail balloting is not a newfangled
idea; it was already deeply embedded in the American electoral system before
the coronavirus hit. In the last two federal elections, roughly one out of
every four Americans cast a mail ballot. In five states — Colorado, Hawaii,
Oregon, Utah, and Washington — mail balloting has been the primary method of voting.
In 28 additional states, all
voters have had the right to vote by mail ballot if they choose, without having
to provide any reason or excuse.
Over time, a growing number of voters have
chosen that option. Since 2000 more than 250 million votes have been cast via mailed-out
ballots, in all 50 states, according to the Vote at Home Institute.
In 2018,
more than 31 million Americans cast their ballots by mail, about
25.8 percent of election participants.Despite this dramatic increase in mail
voting over time, fraud rates remain infinitesimally small. None of the five
states that hold their elections primarily by mail has had any voter fraud
scandals since making that change.
As the New York Times editorial
board notes: “States that use vote-by-mail have encountered
essentially zero fraud: Oregon, the pioneer in this area, has sent out more
than 100 million mail-in ballots since 2000, and has documented only about a
dozen cases of proven fraud.” That rounded to the seventh decimal point, that’s
0.0000001 percent of all votes cast.
An exhaustive investigative
journalism analysis of all known voter fraud cases identified
only 491 cases of absentee ballot fraud from 2000 to 2012. As election law professor Richard L. Hasen notes, during that period “literally billions of votes were
cast.” While mail ballots are more susceptible to fraud than in-person
voting, it is still more likely for an American to be struck by lightning
than to commit mail voting fraud.
States have multiple tools to address valid security concerns and
protect election integrity when it comes to mail ballots. And recent
technologies and strategies have significantly enhanced the security of mail
balloting.
Trump's ploy and strategy are
clear: Plant seeds of doubt to ensure he wins at any and all cost and if not to
challenge it forever while refusing to leave office even as a new president
takes office on Wednesday, January 20, 2021.
With Trump, his history,
words, policies, and acts all show how evil and nasty he is regardless of the
public face he now has painted – it’s as phony as he is – his con man skills are in
full view and make no mistake about that – it is his trademark and he is good at it, too.
All that he has done and
intends to do will cost us dearly in ways we can’t even see or image right now
He will
no doubt challenge the election results and outcome if the count goes against
him, both popular vote (like in 2016) or even Electoral College vote outcome.
He will not accept the results
and as much already told Chris Wallace that on live TV when Wallace asked him
very simply: “Will you accept the election outcome?” Trump said: “I’ll have
to wait and see.”
No American president to my knowledge has ever said anything remotely
close to that statement. We have always had a
peaceful, dignified change of power in that office – but it sure seems Trump is
out to change that just as he has worked hard to erase everything that ever
happened before he took office.
We must never allow that – an
overwhelming election outcome seals his ploy and that is all I ask of the public
– I hope you agree.
Thanks for stopping by.
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