Will The 2024 Election Be a Replay Of 2020?

Most Americans interested in politics are still replaying the 2020 presidential election in their heads even as we stumble our way into the 2024 presidential election cycle. What happened in 2020 was a landmark in election rigging, even though it has been swept under the rug by mainstream media and most of the political class.

The U.S. does not have national elections for president. Instead, we have 50 state elections, which produce electors who then vote for president in early December. A candidate only needs to win enough states with combined electoral votes of 270 or more and you become the president.

Most of the states are not really competitive. California and New York go more or less automatically to the Democrat. Texas and Florida are reliable states for the Republicans. In fact, there are only about ten states that are truly close. The winner doesn’t even have to take all ten of those states. If you can get just five with the right combination of electoral votes, you win.

When you look at those five – Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan – you can see that those five states are dominated by five cities – Phoenix, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and Detroit. If you can run up big margins in those five cities, you win the five states and the election.

Except for landslides, which we haven’t had since 1988, nothing else matters. And all five of those cities (and all of the states except Georgia) are controlled by Democrats and their political machines.

That gives the Democrats a huge political edge and, in part, accounts for why they have won three of the last four presidential elections. They have padded their advantage with pandemic-related rule changes, including early voting, mail-in ballots, no voter ID, drop boxes, and ballot harvesting (which is illegal in some states but continues under the euphemism “ballot assistance”).

All of these techniques are touted under the banner of increased voter access but are really designed to facilitate cheating. In 2020, the cheating was obvious.

Many “mail-in” ballots were increased, which means they were never mailed but came straight from a printer. Some ballots were uncounted and just stashed away. Some machines were programmed so they could not process the same size paper the ballots were printed on; those ballots were also discarded. Ballot harvesting in Wisconsin was greatly amplified by over $250 million in contributions from Mark Zuckerberg and his cronies.

The courts are really not interested in adjudicating any of this. They believe it’s a separation of powers issue, and it’s up to voters to throw out crooked election officials on their own. That’s difficult when the election officials are elected, and those elections are rigged too.

The question for 2024 is whether any of this has changed. Have the Republicans improved their game? Are Republicans ready to get into the “ballot assistance” game in a big way, or do they just sit around and complain? This article suggests the latter.

The author says that the combination of Democrat machines in key localities, favorable treatment from legacy media, and the lack of involvement by the courts add up to a built-in advantage that could help the Democrats win another presidential election in 2024 and perhaps keep the Senate and take back the House.

The Republicans have a lot of good talking points, including immigration, drugs, crime, and sexual grooming in elementary schools. The problem is most voters don’t know much about any of these trends because of media blackouts on coverage that support Republican views.

The article also looks at phony “fact checkers” that lend credibility to allegations that are, in fact, highly disputed. The Republicans are going to have to move fast and in a sophisticated way if they want to counter these built-in Democrat advantages. The article suggests that it may already be too late.

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