Your Election Fraud Theory Sucks

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Sorry, that’s the best title I could come up with the morning after a long Election Night.

If you think mail ballots favoring Biden, especially in urban areas, is “suspicious,” here’s what you have to believe:

1. Because this is happening EVERYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY, in thousands of counties, there’s apparently some conspiracy in literally every single state, with hundreds of thousands of people in on it, and it flew under the radar.
2. Every single survey (A LOT) asking voters what method they intended to vote by, democrats cited vote by mail by a gigantic majority — GIGANTIC.
3. This massive conspiracy includes hundreds of republican controlled counties as well. All across the country, in as red of places as you can imagine — the same thing is happening. Mail ballots are (predictably) going blue. I guess the hundreds of “Trump country” election officials are conspiring against the president too? Thousands of his biggest supporters are in on it too?
4. Democrats pulled off this unbelievably complex national scheme but then decided they’d simultaneously go ahead and let themselves lose their best path to retaking the Senate and lose a bunch of House seats — many of which they were favored to win. This would mean that the millions of alleged fraudulent ballots Democrats supposedly dummied up also included decisive votes AGAINST THEMSELVES in races key to full control of Congress.
5. Finally — and this one takes the cake — Donald Trump actively undermined use of mail-in voting to his supporters and encouraged in-person turnout instead. So what do you think they did? I guess voters listening to the candidate is part of the conspiracy too?

So, in that context, let’s put this kind of wild nonsense to bed. This is especially important because the president is going to dig in on this as hard as he possibly can since it’s his last lifeline — and when did anything he says ever have to make sense anyway?

With any luck in a few months we can stop having to fact check raving tweets like this.