40 days of denial and disinformation
By Globe StaffUpdated December 12, 2020, 5:23 p.m.
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Is it over yet? Almost. Maybe.
What a long, strange, unprecedented trip this has been. President Trump spent weeks before Election Day attacking mail-in voting and signaling he might not accept the results, but that didnât fully prepare Americans for what he unleashed hours after the polls closed. With millions of votes uncounted and several states too close to call, Trump declared he had already won and that election officials were perpetrating a âfraud.â So began an extraordinary campaign of denial and disinformation by a sitting president as Trump has refused to concede to Joe Biden and tried just about everything possible to overturn Bidenâs victory. Still, with no evidence of widespread voter fraud, states have certified their results and electors are set to meet Monday to cast their votes to make Biden the next president.
viewers. the usual indicators being not just polling but other metrics that we ve used for years when the rules of politics applied. well, the rules didn t apply this year. that s fundamentally what happened, and it happened starting with the primaries. you remember when donald trump entered, and you had 16 other republicans in there. you couldn t find a leader in the republican party who thought donald trump would even be one of the finalists much less the nominee. and then the general election, look, even trump and his people thought he was going to lose on election day. election evening. election evening. so let s be honest. this was a surprise to everybody. it s really our generation s 1948 dewey defeats truman when truman actually beat dewey. that s the same thing all over again, because the polls, although there weren t many of them back then, were wrong in