There’s an old saying, “No sense in beating a dead horse.”

True, but perhaps the horse is not entirely dead.

On several occasions I have witnessed a Democrat legislator browbeating a Republican witness or testator by asking “Who won the 2020 election.”   The obvious intent is to force the Republican to admit that Biden won the election.  Usually, the Republican sidesteps and affirms that Biden is (or was) the President but will not say that he won the election.

The controversy goes on.  In fact, there are some indications that the DOJ is now looking into the 2020 election anomalies.  

The election results will never be reversed, but it may be possible to improve our election procedures in the future.  In fact, Trump is pushing for a total revision of our electoral system with an emphasis on in-person voting.  It’s an uphill struggle.

And what about 2020?  I agree with Trump’s contention that he was cheated out of victory.

Consider the following facts gleaned from several sources, including a Federalist article published almost immediately after the 2020 election.

• Biden became the first President in 60 years to lose the states of Ohio and Florida on his way to victory. For a century, these states consistently predicted the national outcome, and they were considered roughly representative of the American melting pot as a whole. Despite national polling in late October giving Biden a lead in both states, he lost Ohio by 8 points and Florida by more than 3. 
• There are 19 counties around the United States that have nearly perfect records of voting for the winner over the last 40 years.  President Trump won 18 of these counties by an average margin of over 16 points.  Biden won one with a margin of 3.
• In a larger list of 58 bellwether counties that have correctly picked the president since 2000, Trump won 51 of them by an average of 15 points, while the other 7 went to Biden by around 4 points.
• Though he exceeded Hilary Clinton’s popular vote total by about 15 million, Biden received fewer votes than Hillary Clinton in major metro areas around the country except in the largest urban centers in critical swing states.  In those key cities Biden massively outperformed Hillary, and in some instances the vote totals appeared to exceed the number of registered voters.  In the states that mattered most, so many mail-in ballots poured in for Biden from their big cities that he received record-breaking numbers and overturned state totals that seemed to indcate unsurmountable leads for President Trump.
• Because of the Covid pandemic, many states switched to mail-in balloting for the first time.  They were not prepared for it.  Zuckerberg and others poured over a half-billion dollars into get-out-the-vote campaigns concentrated in certain key cities and states.  The number of votes cast in these areas far exceeded all previous records.  In 2024 the numbers retreated to pre-pandemic levels.
• Arizona’s Maricopa county was subjected to intense scrutiny after the election.  Biden’s margin of victory was less than 11,000 votes and many Republicans accused the Democrats of skullduggery.  There was an expensive and well publicized vote recount. To the Democrat’s delight, the recount added a few more votes to Biden’s margin.  However, in addition to the vote count, a group of auditors attempted to identify Maricopa voters.  They used a well-known and reliable commercial company to validate voters’ identities.  This company could not find an identity match on 86,391 Maricopa voters.  73.8% of these voters were registered as Democrats. As you will see, that tracks very closely to the 96,389 ghost voters exposed in the following study.

A group of concerned Maricopa citizens (probably Republican) did their own study prior to the recount.  These volunteers visited homes in several Maricopa election districts and came up with the following results:

Household’s visited                                                                                      11,709

Registered Voters Interviewed                                                                     4,570

Registered Voters Shown by County as Not Voting                               964

Registered Voters Who Voted but Shown Not Voting                          330

If you extrapolate these results to the entire Maricopa County, an estimated 173,104 voters had their ballots discarded. These canvassers made another alarming discovery.  3,606 of the registered voters interviewed were listed as having voted by mail, but 164 (or 5.66%) of the supposed mail-in voters at the addresses visited were either unknown to the current resident or were known to have moved prior to the election – sometimes many years before. Somehow another person or persons managed to fraudulently submit mail-in ballots using a former resident’s name.  Again, extrapolating these results to the entire mail-in vote, Maricopa County had as many as 96,389 ghost voters.

Either the discarded ballots or the ghost votes could have reversed the November 3^rd election results in Arizona.

Who won the 2020 election?  Mocking Senator Hawakawa’s remarks about the American takeover of Panama:

“ Democrats stole the election fair and square. “