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. There's some small chance, I guess, that Trump could pull Arizona out, and then who knows? If he holds Pennsylvania, anything could happen. But at the moment the odds are looking like Biden is going to have an electoral, tiny, tiny advantage when the votes are counted. We'll see. Now, what did we learn last night? Number one, how were the professional pollsters? Well, I would say Rasmussen was…
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By the way, there's no evidence that I'm aware of of Biden himself being involved in any crimes. I'm just saying anything could happen in a big, complicated world. You can accuse anybody of anything. And yeah, what happens then? Does Kamala get the electoral college votes? How does that work? Does the House get involved?
So if you think that we're done or near done because you think you know what the end of the vote will be, I don't know. It's 2020. Anything could happen.
Let me ask you this. What are the odds that China tried to interfere with the election? Right now that's separate from the odds that we would catch them. But just what are the odds that they tried? What do you think? What are the odds that they tried? A hundred percent. I don't know how to put odds on that. But aren't we trying to interfere in other elections fairly routinely? Don't countries somewhat routinely interfere with other elections?
So suppose China was just routinely interfering, perhaps like they have in the past, perhaps like Russia is doing, you know, perhaps as other countries are doing. Who knows? And suppose we find something. What then? Because it would be so obvious that China prefers Biden. What happens if we find even a little bit of China influence on the election? What then?
There's a lot of wild cards here, aren't there? If you're a Biden supporter, even if you get the win, I don't know if you can be completely comfortable because who knows what's going to happen.
So President Trump decided to declare that in his opinion, frankly, he did win the election. That's when he was ahead in the vote count and wanted future votes, I guess, not to be counted or something. But Biden had said a little bit more reserved. He said he believed he was going to win. Now those are different. Saying you believe you're going to win is just always fair. That's always fair for a politician to say, right? So nobody gets in trouble for saying I believe I will win. But if you say I did win and they're still counting votes, that's kind of a stretch.
But did it give Trump a strategic advantage in claiming that he had won? Maybe. Maybe it would get his base on his side if he wants to fight it on some technicality. So it might give him some advantage.
What kind of irregularities are we seeing? So this is the point in the process where you shouldn't believe anything you see. The fake news that you're going to see in the next few days will be probably record-setting. And so one of the things we're seeing is that there was something that happened in Michigan where a whole bunch of votes were added to Biden sort of suddenly toward the end. Now I don't know the details of that, and I would not assume that it means something untoward happened or that anything happened, because we're so early in the fog of war that I don't even know if it's true that a bunch of votes got added for Biden at the end. Who knows? Even the basic facts are true at this point. But that's one question.
There's another question about Arizona voters who were Trump supporters getting Sharpies to use on their ballots, and that would invalidate them somehow. I don't know if there's anything to that. Who knows? Does a Sharpie invalidate your ballot? I don't know.
Of course there will be multiple reports of fake ballots and ballot harvesting. Ballot harvesting is legal depending on the state. So there's going to be all kinds of stuff to look into.
But let me ask you this. Let's say it came down to Michigan. Let's say the vote came down to whoever won Michigan would be president. And let's say Michigan came down to Detroit. It could, right? Or the Detroit county or something. Suppose it came down to really just one metropolitan area. Do you think the Trump administration could find real evidence that that one metropolitan area, no matter what it is, had some bad ballots and irregularities? Probably, right? Because again, everything big and complicated has a little bit of corruption or a little bit of mistake or a little bit of incompetence.
So if you just said randomly throw your dart at the map of the United States, hit a city, and then really do a deep dive on that city, are you gonna find any problems? Probably, right? It's a big world. There's lots of opportunities for that stuff.
59% of my followers on an unscientific Twitter poll say they think the election has been unfair. 59%. Now it's unscientific, and most of my followers are Trump supporters, so you'd expect that they would be Trump-supporting in their answering of the poll. But that's a lot of people, even unscientific.
So what would happen if Trump's supporters think that the election was not fair? If it goes through the right process, they will accept it. In other words, if the House is involved or somebody checks the votes and checks for the irregularities or the Supreme Court makes the decision, if there's something that looks like a constitutional process, I think Trump supporters are going to grudgingly accept the result even while doubting that it was legitimate, as long as the process looks like it was followed. So I don't think there's gonna be civil war in that specific sense.
Now the weirdest thing about where we are right now is that even the looters don't know what to do. You know, I tweeted that. It's a joke but not really a joke. Because what are all the protesters and the people who have assembled in the streets, what do they do if Biden wins? Do you know? I don't really know. I don't know. Do they go home if Biden wins? Because that's one possibility. They'll just go home.
But if Biden wins, don't you still have a problem with Black Lives Matter
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and police brutality? According to them there shouldn't be any difference, right? Because the issues that BLM and Antifa had don't really change if you change the president. I don't think so. So are we going to watch Antifa become the ally of Republicans because, you know, the enemy of my enemy situation? Antifa is going to turn on Biden, right? Because Antifa is not Democrats. They're Antifa. The…
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