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butdiduvote

(284 posts)
Sat Feb 11, 2017, 05:29 PM Feb 2017

Is it possible any election rigging dates back to the primaries?

Remember during the primary debates how he refused to say he wouldn't run as an independent if he didn't get the nomination? He seemed awfully sure of his victory for someone who was a celebrity blowhard who spent the debates talking about things like penis size because he didn't know anything about policy. Then his primary results themselves were outrageous. Sure, there are people in this country who will vote for a clown because hehe look at me, I'm so funny, but I'm not convinced those people outnumber sensible, educated, patriotic conservatives by such huge margins.

I am admittedly just going off of "hunches," but there remains this nagging feeling in the back of my mind that the Russians had this thing rigged for him beginning day 1.

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Is it possible any election rigging dates back to the primaries? (Original Post) butdiduvote Feb 2017 OP
Why not? Cracklin Charlie Feb 2017 #1
yes Skittles Feb 2017 #2
In primary he easily took the white wing racist vote, no rigging needed. In GE, they looked resigned Hoyt Feb 2017 #3
Wouldn't surpise me....nt 2naSalit Feb 2017 #4
Wouldn't put it past them. SammyWinstonJack Feb 2017 #5
There was no election rigging mythology Feb 2017 #6
 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
3. In primary he easily took the white wing racist vote, no rigging needed. In GE, they looked resigned
Sat Feb 11, 2017, 06:00 PM
Feb 2017

to losing. If there was a rigged GE, beyond local registration stuff that has been going on for decades, Trump didn't know it.

 

mythology

(9,527 posts)
6. There was no election rigging
Sat Feb 11, 2017, 07:00 PM
Feb 2017

The recount results in Wisconsin in counties that hand recounted weren't statistically significantly different from the counties that did machine recounts. Just because you really really want to believe the vote was hacked isn't actually evidence that it was.

How is what you're doing with these unsupported conspiracy theories any different than Trump claiming millions of undocumented immigrants voting?

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