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Well, it's been labeled the big lie, the idea that Donald Trump actually won the 2020

election thanks to voter fraud and the attempts by the left to create an almost global conspiracy

to deny him the presidency. The folks who suggest that Donald Trump won the

2020 election, one of the reasons they suggest that is because they say, well, the left had the

motive, the means and the opportunity. That is the argument that I have heard. And it is the strongest

argument that they make. Because the truth is that there's no way to prove that Donald Trump

actually won the 2020 election based on the vote count. There's no way to actually show that fraudulent voters were present in the sort of numbers that would have overturned the results in many of these states. The best that you can say in favor of the idea that the 2020 election was rigged is that it was sort of informally and generically rigged in the sense that the media denied people the access to the information that would have needed to change their votes in the sense that the rules were actively changed in some cases like in Pennsylvania

against the constitution of the state of Pennsylvania in order to make it easier for people to vote

absentee it's possible to say that ballot harvesting creates the massive possibility of borderfront

right all of those things can be true the actual notion that Donald Trump won based on he definitely had enough falsified ballots that he could have proved or the ballots we

can show were shipped in in the middle of the night and people were in the backroom punching

holes in the chads. That sort of proof wasn't present. But the argument that is the most,

I think, strong and convincing from the right, from those who argue this point of view, if you're trying to steal man the argument, is that the left has the motive means and the opportunity to steal elections, and so why wouldn't they? And the idea here is that they had the means, right? The means would be, you know, the broadening of the voting procedures and the ballot harvesting. They had the opportunity because people were voting

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