Post by NFA on Feb 11, 2021 21:28:16 GMT 8
The Grand Old Party: Royally Screwed or Soon to Inherit the Throne?
By Nicholas L. Waddy February 10, 2021
What’s extraordinary about the 2020 election is not that it was lost but how close Donald Trump and his voters came to full-scale victory.
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What’s more, we have only to contemplate the raw results of the 2020 election to perceive just how close the Left and the establishment came to their worst nightmare: defeat on all fronts.
Donald Trump came within 42,844 votes of flipping three critical states that would have given him an electoral college victory—and that’s despite the avalanche of questionable, mail-in votes Biden received.
Meanwhile, Republicans came within just 31,751 votes of taking a majority in the House of Representatives—despite predictions that Democrats in that chamber would easily pad their advantage. The slightest alteration in the winds of political fortune, therefore, could have reelected Trump and turfed Nancy Pelosi out of the Speakership.
Assuming we grant David Perdue a handful of extra votes in November 2020 as well, and thus a win over Jon Ossoff, Republicans would have recaptured the presidency, gained the House, and retained the Senate, just as in 2016, except that in this case the establishment would have seen the calamity coming, would have organized every possible resource and subterfuge to prevent it . . . and would have failed anyway.
Donald Trump came within 42,844 votes of flipping three critical states that would have given him an electoral college victory—and that’s despite the avalanche of questionable, mail-in votes Biden received.
Meanwhile, Republicans came within just 31,751 votes of taking a majority in the House of Representatives—despite predictions that Democrats in that chamber would easily pad their advantage. The slightest alteration in the winds of political fortune, therefore, could have reelected Trump and turfed Nancy Pelosi out of the Speakership.
Assuming we grant David Perdue a handful of extra votes in November 2020 as well, and thus a win over Jon Ossoff, Republicans would have recaptured the presidency, gained the House, and retained the Senate, just as in 2016, except that in this case the establishment would have seen the calamity coming, would have organized every possible resource and subterfuge to prevent it . . . and would have failed anyway.
That’s how close Trump and Republicans came to victory, and how close our most powerful enemies came to ignominious defeat.
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