{"id":3792,"date":"2020-11-09T23:12:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T23:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3792"},"modified":"2020-11-09T23:12:46","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T23:12:46","slug":"the-trump-campaigns-allegations-of-election-fraud-are-a-bunch-of-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3792","title":{"rendered":"The Trump campaign\u2019s allegations of election fraud are a bunch of nonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Their strategy is to make allegations first and hopefully find evidence for them later<\/a>. This state of affairs was thrown into stark relief late Friday morning during a Fox News interview with RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel. During it, Fox News hosts appeared to be out of patience with her evidence-free insinuations that the election was somehow stolen from Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe just haven\u2019t seen it. It hasn\u2019t been presented. There\u2019s all kinds of stuff flying on the internet, but when we look into it, it doesn\u2019t pan out,\u201d anchor Bret Baier told McDaniel, as she failed to explain how her technical gripes about election observers in Michigan could possibly affect the result in a state Biden appears poised to win by well over 100,000 votes.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“While the courts and even Fox News don\u2019t really seem to be buying what Trump is selling, the president does retain loyalty from key elected Republicans. In the hours following a Thursday press event in which the president undermined US elections by making baseless allegations of fraud<\/a>, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Senators Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz went on Fox News and indicated they\u2019ll stand by Trump as he fights it out to the bitter end.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/11\/6\/21552720\/trump-2020-campaign-election-irregularities-fraud<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Their strategy is to make allegations first and hopefully find evidence for them later. This state of affairs was thrown into stark relief late Friday morning during a Fox News interview with RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel. During it, Fox News hosts appeared to be out of patience with her evidence-free insinuations that the election was somehow stolen from Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just haven\u2019t seen it. It hasn\u2019t been presented. There\u2019s all kinds of stuff flying on the internet, but when we look into it, it doesn\u2019t pan out,\u201d anchor Bret Baier told McDaniel, as she failed to explain how her technical gripes about election observers in Michigan could possibly affect the result in a state Biden appears poised to win by well over 100,000 votes.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“While the courts and even Fox News don\u2019t really seem to be buying what Trump is selling, the president does retain loyalty from key elected Republicans. In the hours following a Thursday press event in which the president undermined US elections by making baseless allegations of fraud, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Senators Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz went on Fox News and indicated they\u2019ll stand by Trump as he fights it out to the bitter end.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,198,170,479],"class_list":["post-3792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-elections","tag-trump","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3793,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792\/revisions\/3793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}