Earlier this month, a Michael Bloomberg funded data and analytics firm,
Hawkfish, laid the groundwork for the left’s war on the legitimacy of
November’s Presidential election results.
In an interview with Axios, Hawkfish’s
CEO, Josh
Mendelsohn said:
“We are sounding an alarm and saying that
this is a very real possibility, that the data is going to show on election
night an incredible victory for Donald Trump,” he said.
“When every legitimate vote is tallied and we
get to that final day, which will be some day after Election Day, it will in
fact show that what happened on election night was exactly that, a mirage,”
Mendelsohn said.
“It looked like Donald Trump was in the lead
and he fundamentally was not when every ballot gets counted.”
Democrats Will Not Concede The Election
Bloomberg’s cronies didn’t even try to hide
their intentions in their interview, making it clear exactly what this effort
was really all about:
“The group is also trying to sensitize state
and county elections officials, news and social media organizations, and the
courts to the perils of premature results — and to the possibility of Trump and
his team applying challenges and political pressure to reject a high share of
mailed-in ballots counted after election day.”
Let’s be absolutely crystal clear here:
Democrats are trying to pressure government officials and media organizations
into not calling states for Trump on election night because they intend to
litigate the result – no matter what the numbers say.
The left learned a valuable lesson
from 2000. The moment on Election Night that networks called the Presidency
for George W Bush – and the moment Al Gore called Bush to concede – Democrats
lost a powerful messaging tool.
Instead of a seeking to get to the bottom of
an unknown outcome, Democratic challenges to the results in Florida felt more
like an opportunistic attempt to steal an election.
Who
can forget the Sore-Loserman signs, hats and t-shirts that popped up
everywhere between the election and Gore’s second concession in mid-December?
The longer the challenges to the Florida vote
went on, the more frustrated Americans became with the challenges and the more
they began
to sour on Gore.
This is something the left desperately wants
to avoid in 2020, which is why they are trying to get out in front of the issue
and discourage any outlet from calling the election for President Trump on
Election Night.
President Trump Should Declare Victory If He
Wins On Election Night
If President Trump is ahead handily, which I
expect to be the case, and it appears he will win the Presidency, then
President Trump should absolutely declare victory on Election Night.
And right of center news outlets like Fox
News and OAN should also declare him the winner.
The most reliable and trustworthy votes are
those cast in-person, whether via early vote or on Election Day. The presumption
of victory – albeit a rebuttable one – should lie with the most reliable and
trustworthy results.
If the results on Election Night, which will
be a combination of votes cast that day (which will favor Trump) and those cast
in-person and early (which will favor Biden) show an overwhelming victory for
President Trump, then that’s exactly what should be called.
This doesn’t mean that Joe Biden cannot win
the Presidency on the basis of mail-in votes, but it does mean that the
presumption should be in favor of the most-trustworthy ballots: those cast
in-person.
If Joe Biden and his campaign team want to
launch a legal challenge to the results, they are free to do so.
But they should have to carry the burden of
establishing that the mail-in ballots on which they are relying were cast by
actual registered voters in compliance with the laws of the states in which
they were cast.
Christopher Barron is President of
Right Turn Strategies. He is a contributor to The Hill, and a regular on the
Kennedy Show on FOX Business and Unfiltered on Headline News. He was a media
surrogate for the Trump campaign and organize d LGBT for Trump.
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