Mr. Trump’s statement throws out a farrago of “questions” about the election intended to imply massive fraud that he could never prove in court, in Congress or in subsequent state audits. He asks how Mr. Biden could lose “27 out of 27 ‘toss up’ House races, but somehow miraculously receive the most votes in American history with no coattails?”
That’s supposed to sound suspect, but all it proves is that election forecasters did a terrible job predicting which House races were “toss ups.” They predicted Democrats would enlarge their House majority by winning conservative House districts. The election was close, so traditionally conservative House districts went to the GOP. There’s no reason to expect that the party that failed (albeit narrowly) to win the House, as the GOP did, should win the Electoral College.
That’s the pattern of Mr. Trump’s changing election claims—superficially intriguing but readily explicable by the data, which we’ve reviewed in these pages manytimes. Yet the former President still accuses Democrats of perpetrating “the real insurrection, which took place on November 3rd.”
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