What If Biden Were Seeking Recounts? We Know Exactly What Would Happen – The Political Insider

By J Peder Zane for RealClearPolitics

Think about if Joe Biden had loved a wholesome lead on election evening solely to see it evaporate because the numbers dripped in from Republican strongholds.

Does anybody consider the mainstream media would have rushed to anoint Donald Trump the winner?

Would the New York Instances, Washington Publish, NPR and different retailers have solid the inevitable Democrat calls for for poll opinions and recounts as a constitutional disaster or would they’ve run wall-to-wall protection in regards to the inherent issues related to mail-in ballots?

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We don’t must think about the reply – simply recall 2016 when the identical liberal information organizations which are damning Trump as a tyrant and suggesting he is likely to be planning a coup cheered and facilitated Democrat efforts to delegitimize Trump’s victory by claiming he was a crooked businessman who had colluded with Vladimir Putin to steal the election.

After early efforts did not persuade electors to defy the will of their states and solid their ballots for Hillary Clinton, talk turned to impeachment earlier than Trump was even sworn in.

On the morning of his inauguration – which was boycotted by several dozen Democrat members of Congress as a result of, as Rep. Jerrold Nadler stated, he was not “legally elected” – a Washington Post article reported, “The marketing campaign to question President Trump has begun.”

Democrats and their media allies fulfilled that promise, spending the subsequent three years utilizing salacious smears funded by the Clinton marketing campaign to say Trump was Putin’s puppet.

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When Particular Counsel Robert Mueller dismissed that conspiracy idea in March 2019, Democrats impeached Trump on different grounds that didn’t embody excessive crimes or misdemeanors.

At a Could 2019 occasion, Biden agreed with a lady who stated Trump was “an illegitimate president.” A month later, former President Jimmy Carter said the identical.

Nothing in our historical past has accomplished extra to destroy norms and undercut the rule of regulation.

This historical past doesn’t bolster Trump’s claims that large voter irregularities prompted his 2020 defeat – although we owe it to our nation to evaluation the outcomes from this extremely uncommon election.

It does counsel that one motive hundreds of thousands of Individuals are skeptical about Biden’s victory is the insistence of a extremely partisan media that he gained truthful and sq. – no questions requested.

Presidents come and go, however the media is ceaselessly. The transformation of main information retailers from liberal voices into propaganda arms of the left could be the most consequential legacy of the Trump period.

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It’s not shocking that the media so causally compares Trump to Hitler whereas branding Republicans as racists – these are actually articles of faith among the many leftists they support. That is apparently what they consider.

Gallup polls illustrate the partisan shift. Throughout the Obama years about 55% of Democrats felt the “mass media” reported the information “totally, precisely, and pretty.” About 30% of Republicans agreed.

In 2017 the variety of approving Democrats rose to 72% – the place it has roughly stayed – whereas the variety of approving Republicans dropped to simply 14% in 2016 and is now at 10%.

Little doubt many Democrats inform themselves they’re reality-based whereas Republicans have been brainwashed by Trump’s “pretend information” lies.

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However that place is tough to defend given the Trump/Russia fiction they perpetrated, the ugly accusations they launched in opposition to Brett Kavanaugh throughout his Supreme Courtroom affirmation hearings, and the contempt with which they view those that disagree with them.

Free nations want an trustworthy press. We now not have one. Heaven assist us.

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