It's Suddenly OK To Ask If The 2020 Election Was Stolen

From Robert Spencer at PJ Media:

As of this writing on Friday, Donald Trump’s popular vote total stood at 74,269,316. By the time you see this article and click on that link, however, that total is certain to be higher. Trump’s final popular vote total has now exceeded his official 2020 total of 74,225,926. Kamala Harris, meanwhile, has 68,800,347 popular votes, a steep decline from Old Joe Biden’s 2020 total of 81,286,454.

He cites a piece by Victoria Taft, who asks, Did God Rapture Some 15 Million Democrat Voters? If Not, Where'd They Go?

Before the election I wondered if this would happen. After universal mail-out ballots had been curbed in some places for the 2024 election, and despite same-day registration and voting and even outlawing voter ID in California, would America have the same numbers of voters as 2020? Would they show back up?

At this point, it looks as if there could be a significant reduction in Democrat voters from 2020 to 2024.

On Wednesday, the AP fact checkers were on the case:

CLAIM: President Joe Biden won approximately 20 million more votes in the 2020 election than Vice President Kamala Harris earned in the 2024 race, proving either that Trump has cheated his way to a second term or that there was widespread fraud four years ago.

THE FACTS: The claims are unfounded. Votes from Tuesday’s presidential election are still being counted, so any comparison with previous races would not be accurate. In addition, election officials and agencies monitoring the vote have reported no significant issues with Tuesday’s election. Claims of widespread fraud in 2020 have been debunked countless times.

Buit as of Friday afternoon, NBC News's popular vote totals were Trump 73,517,201, Harris 69,204,767, only slightly higher than the numbers Spencer cites. It's highly unlikely that another 11 to 15 million votes will suddenly turn up to match the 2020 figures, but the idea that they might is the whole basis for the fact checkers' argument.

On October 5, I first linked to a report of now Vice President-elect Vance's exchange with comedian Jason Selvig on this subject:

“Who won the 2020 election? Could you just answer? Did Donald Trump win?” Selvig asked.

“Yes,” Vance replied.

After asking Vance to confirm that he was saying Trump won in 2020, Vance replied “Yep.”

As I posted then, Vance has been widening the Overton window to make questions about the 2020 election respectable. But those who now question the legitimacy of the 2024 election are using the disparity to suggest Trump is the one who cheated this year -- all of a sudden, that's beginning to make skepticism about 2020 OK as well. YouTube legal commentator Robert Gouveia discusses this development here:

At 8:40, for instance, he discusses the totals of registered voters who actually voted in Milwaukee precincts in the 2020 election and finds that they remarkably reported totals verging on 100%, and in a few cases exceeding 100%. Robert Spencer at the link above continues,

That Trump would have gotten roughly the same number of votes in 2024 as he did in 2020 is perfectly reasonable. He is, thanks to the left’s relentless campaign of defamation, a highly controversial figure, and while the 2024 campaign certainly changed some people’s minds about him, it is no surprise that his base of support remained roughly the same size that it was the last time around.

But what about that massive drop-off between Old Joe, the most popular president in American history according to his vote total, and Kamala? Not only did eleven million voters not show up for Harris as they did for Biden, but they didn’t go anywhere. Not only did Kamala not get those votes, but there is no comparable increase in anyone else’s vote total.

. . . For four years, it has been impossible even to ask questions about the 2020 election. Those who dared even to suggest that it may not actually have been the most secure election in history have been defamed as conspiracy theorists and deplatformed and silenced accordingly.

The big difference now is that with Trump allies poised to come into the Justice Department, we'll begin to get much more clarity. On Wednesday, my theory was that Kamala, Dougie, and Tim Walz weren't just bad candidates or surrogates, they were all outright annoying, which caused even Democrats to stay home. But that was before people began to raise this new issue of an overall disparity in vote totals betwen 2020 and 2024. Kamala's phony nasal weepiness alone can't explain around 10 million missing voters.