Many Trump voters now loathe Fox News, blame it for calling Arizona for Biden early and otherwise view it as some kind of left-wing sellout. But such critics are, among other things, wildly out of date. Fox News is forever trotted out and blamed for exacerbating partisanship in US politics. Complaints about it tend to presume that if media-bias is going to go in any direction it should always and only be leftwards. In fact American media simply has a bias balance. And it is true that the US media is partisan in a way which would shock viewers of the current Sky UK.
The cop-out at this stage is for people to lament the divided media in America and blame them for this pass. Although to be fair to her, at least Clinton did not attempt to break in and then blockade herself into the Oval Office. But if they do, then they should also deprecate all those Hillary Clinton voters - including Clinton herself - who spent four years refusing to accept the result of the last presidential election. There are people who will deprecate that fact. Presently more than eight out of ten Americans who voted for Trump believe that this election was rigged and that Biden is not the legitimate president. He will have his own narrative to draw on, just as the Democrats will have theirs. I suspect that after spreading enough of the ‘rigged’ narrative around, Trump will eventually be persuaded to leave office with the kind of grace and good nature that we have also come to expect from him. Yet underneath all these disagreements a larger problem can be discerned. I think this has become a pipe dream, and forgets (though this shouldn’t necessarily be a factor) that were it to happen, the radical left would burn America to the ground. The President’s loyalists assure me that what they have is good, that it is going to go all the way, that the Supreme Court may get involved and that this body will rule in the President’s favour. Over the past fortnight I’d have said that the possibility of the election outcome reversing has gone from a just-about double-digit percentage chance to a post-decimal-point one. They have not so far produced such evidence, and as the days drag on it seems likely that they do not have it. Why won’t Humza Yousaf condemn Celtic fans? They must show that the corruption in the US voting system is so vast and consistent that rather than a few counties potentially flipping on appeal, whole states currently called for Joe Biden will reverse and go to Trump, who as a result will retain the presidency. Still, the trick that Trump and his team must pull off is the harder one, because it is more urgent.
I suspect they will manage it, with the level of integrity one has come to expect from the current leadership of the Democratic party. After four years of undermining the US electoral system they must now insist that it is so watertight that no ballot could ever be incorrectly accounted for. The fact that these same people spent the past four years claiming that the Russians rigged the 2016 election - while never providing any proof for their claim - makes this an especially tricky juggle. Of course right now no Democrat in America will concede that there is, or ever has been, any fraud in the US electoral system. In the US, as in the UK (witness Tower Hamlets), the public are right to fear that mail-in ballots in particular are a positive invitation to electoral malpractice. The first thing to juggle is the fact that there is plenty of evidence of electoral fraud. The problem in America now is that people see the same events but disagree on what they have just seen Yet it seems to me that the thing is finished already, with America now having to pull off the most difficult imaginable set of juggling tricks. ‘Let’s finish this thing’ is one of this morning’s emails. I feel like one of those early users of the internet who actually responded to the Nigerian emailers offering part-ownership in a diamond mine.Īnyhow, even if you don’t receive his emails, you might have guessed by the desperation that Trump has lost the election. Perhaps I shouldn’t have handed over my details when signing up for the Pensacola rally. Because in just one morning I also got emails from Mike Pence (‘We’re closer than ever’), Eric Trump and bewilderingly - for I cannot see what fresh constituency she brings - Eric’s wife, Lara. On just one morning this week I rolled over to find emails from him titled ‘Chaos’, ‘Rigged’ and ‘We’re gaining momentum.’ Another said ‘The left hates you, Douglas.’ He doesn’t know the half of it.Ĭlearly my email address has been shared. Each morning I wake up, turn on my phone and find more messages sent overnight. Ever since I saw him in Pensacola, Florida the other week, Donald J.
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