Tuesday and Michigan has certified its vote count in favor of Joe Biden. “Michigan’s statewide electoral board approved its presidential vote tally on Monday, resisting pressure from President Trump to delay the process and paving the way for President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. to receive the state’s 16 electoral votes.” (New York Times)
In addition, Emily Murphy of the General Services Administration, has determined to begin the formal presidential transition.
Emily Murphy, head of the General Services Administration, said in a letter to President-elect Joe Biden on Monday that her office is ready to begin the formal presidential transition, after weeks of pressure from Democrats to allow the process to go ahead.
The letter came after a four-member canvassing board in Michigan certified that state’s election results, effectively awarding Michigan’s 16 electoral votes to Biden, who defeated President Trump with a margin of more than 155,000 votes.
Trump thanked Murphy in tweets Monday night and said he had recommended that she and her team “do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols.” But he also maintained, “Our case STRONGLY continues, we will keep up the good fight, and I believe we will prevail!”
This is a perfect example of the mixed messages Trump supporters are picking up from news sources. On the one hand, we hear from Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, and Sidney Powell that they have evidence of massive fraud and that Trump won by more than double the margin of the cheat. On the other hand, they suddenly distance themselves from Sidney Powell, claiming she is not part of Trump’s legal team. On the one hand, they thank Murphy for doing her job, but on the other hand, their case “STRONGLY continues.”
And then there’s the article, “5 More Ways Joe Biden Magically Outperformed Election Norms” in The Federalist by J.B. Shurk. You can read it yourself, and I recommend you do, but in essence he wonders why the press isn’t interested in Joe Biden’s extraordinary win.
For instance, Joe Biden received more than 80 million votes—15 million more than Barack Obama in his re-election bid—and defeated President Trump, who “gained more than ten million votes since his 2016 victory” and had record support among minority voters. That’s truly incredible. It’s historic! How did Joe accomplish that?
Also consider that Joe Biden won, convincingly, even though Democrats lost, convincingly, everywhere else. “‘Donald Trump was pretty much the only incumbent president in U.S. history to lose his re-election while his own party gained seats in the House of Representatives.’ Now that’s a Biden miracle!”
There’s lots more at the link, but the point is that the Democrats, the media and the radical left (but I repeat myself) would have us believe that Joe Biden motivated tens of millions more Americans to turn out for him while he hunkered down in his basement, struggled to put a coherent sentence together, and drew five cars and a camper to his campaign appearances; while Donald J. Trump, the incumbent with more than 50% approval rating, incredible successes over the previous four years and drawing crowds of thousands to his campaign events with thousands more standing outside—we’re supposed to believe that Joe Biden pulled off some kind of historical upset over that?
The contrast couldn’t be sharper. It doesn’t pass the smell test. Or the look test. Or the common sense test.
If Donald J. Trump “loses” this election, I will never be convinced that Biden “won” it. What am I to believe: the anti-American Left who vilified and harassed this president for the last four years, or my lyin’ eyes?
It’s not over yet, but I don’t like how it’s trending.