They're trying to steal an election.

They're trying to rig an election.

At weeks end, President Trump clung to a lie as baseless as it was inconceivable.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Bob Garfield.

So just how does one steal an election?

This would just require, to use Joseph McCarthy's words,

a conspiracy so immense as to make it really expensive and risky for everybody involved.

Also, pollsters faced public ire after they once again appeared to have undercounted Republicans,

but it's not just that the prediction was off.

There's a lot of evidence and reporting that shows that the forecast itself affects the

outcome.

Plus, the trajectory of the Republican Party.

It's all coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield.

They're trying to steal an election.

They're trying to rig an election. Donald Trump on Thursday

evening speaking to the press as his leads in Georgia and Pennsylvania were slipping away

with the tallying of mail-in ballots. Leveling charges of corruption and fraud, as they say, without

evidence, he laid out the cheating process with all the eloquence and

rigor to which over four years we have become accustomed. They're just taking numbers. They're

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