(Gateway Pundit) Donald Trump’s resounding victory over Kamala Harris was historically consequential: it was the first time a Republican presidential candidate carried both the electoral college and popular vote in twenty years.
More than that, however, was the lasting, even generational, impact it will have on our politics for decades to come.
If Donald Trump, who had been target number one of weaponized lawfare like nothing seen in our history, had not won this race, America as we know it would have been destroyed for good.
The restoration must begin with rigorous election integrity laws. President Trump’s popular vote win affords him with a mandate that he did not have (at least officially) in his first term.
The feat is made even more impressive by the certainty that fraud and corruption still impacted the results of this race.
The idea that the President had to win over and above what should be the normal threshold to victory – hence, this year’s mantra, “too big to rig” – must be considered unacceptable moving forward.
t should be a top priority for any first world country, especially the United States, to have confidence in its election procedures.
It is inexcusable that in a democratic society, the people would even harbor the slightest doubt about the integrity of their election laws – and the legitimacy of the outcome.
Alas, the way America runs its elections has become a joke around the world.
The fact that we do not have a national standard to check for citizenship in the form of voter ID is a disgrace and embarrassment.
As many commentators, including Elon Musk, have noted on X and elsewhere, it’s striking that every state without voter ID laws voted for Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate, this cycle.
Among other things, Democrats have long opposed voter ID laws for winning elections; in a few cases, they have even advocated for permitting illegal aliens and other undocumented persons to vote in local and state elections.
It is a certainty that had Kamala Harris won, the Democratic Party at a national level would have advocated for a nationwide ban on voter ID, probably calling the measure invidious discrimination (even though it really just discriminates against American citizens, including legions of black, Latino, and women voters), as well as called for illegal aliens to vote in every case.
As it stands, the U.S. Census – which determines the distribution of electoral college votes by state – already includes illegal aliens in its count of state residents. In a state like California, for example, which has at least three million unlawful aliens domiciled within its borders, that adds at least three million additional residents to its overall population.
As a basis of comparison, Arkansas, which boasts 6 electoral votes, has about 3 million residents overall. Therefore, 3 million illegal aliens equate to roughly 6 extra electoral votes for a state like California.
If illegal aliens were not included in California’s electoral college total (as should be the case), it would receive just 48 electoral votes, not the 54 electoral votes it currently has.
Donald Trump thus loses electoral votes because of the disproportionate number assigned to states like California – and other blue juggernauts like New York and Illinois.
These are states which are home to unconstitutional sanctuary cities, whose electoral vote numbers are likewise doubtlessly inflated by the numbers of illegal aliens residing within their borders.
One would think with the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment, which all but mooted the “Three-Fifths compromise,” an invidious clause found in the text of the original Constitution which boosted the South’s electoral power by incorporating three-fifths of every non-citizen slave as part of the U.S. Census, that counting non-citizens in the U.S. Census would be universally verboten. Yet here we are.
The same principle that animated the Three-Fifths Compromise now informs the drive to include non-citizens and illegal aliens in the U.S. Census.
Like their Confederate forbears, latter-day Democrats want to increase their electoral power – both in terms of their share of the electoral college and for congressional districts – but they are also unwilling to publicly advocate for illegal aliens (at least this juncture) to be allowed to vote.
The latter point really brings out the duplicity from their disingenuity.
The reason Democrats cannot possibly advocate for illegal aliens voters needn’t be spelled out: as a matter of policy, illegal alien voting is widely, unpopular.
The overwhelming majority of Americans want the franchise to be limited to U.S. citizens only – which is perfectly rational: one of the privileges of citizenship after all – and not just in the United States, but everywhere — is the right to vote.
It is a right Americans view — rightly — as sacred. If the franchise was open to everyone, illegal alien and citizen alike, it would lose its special meaning.
What is more, American citizens would abdicate the cornerstone of their identity as a liberty-loving people – and the country, opening its doors to the world, would effectively cease to exist.
And so, Democrats are forced to pretend – in public, at least – that they oppose giving voting rights to illegal aliens.
At the same time, they rely on duplicitous back-door schemes, like including illegal aliens in the U.S. Census, which affects electoral college numbers – and pretending that illegal aliens do not appear on voting rolls – even though overwhelming evidence proves they do – every single election.
It is quite evident based on the still-ongoing, weeks-long process to tabulate votes, particularly in California, Arizona, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New York, over which time a number of key Senate races have swung to Democratic favor, even though for a while it looked as though the Republican had won fair and square, that electoral shenanigans are afoot.
The shocking revelations out of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, tells the whole story: Democratic election workers continue to count illegitimate votes – in defiance of a Pennsylvania Supreme court order!, which threatens to flip that county – which voted for Donald Trump – to Kamala Harris’ corner.
The Bucks County scandal is indicative of a broader nationwide strategy by Democrats on display in the two weeks since Election Day: displeased with their landslide blowout, they are working vigilantly to erode Donald Trump’s popular vote margin and flip a few Senate seats that went for Republicans to Democrats.
In Pennsylvania, Democrats are working overtime to claw back David McCormick’s victory and keep that Senate seat firmly in Democratic hands as a way to exact vengeance on Donald Trump’s Pennsylvania voters.
Democrats were likely successful in cheating other senators, from Sam Brown in Nevada to Kari Lake in Arizona to Eric Hovde in Wisconsin, of victories that would have padded the Republican majority in the Senate.
Each of these Republican senatorial candidates were leading (or came within the margin of victory) on election night only to see their leads mysteriously vanish in the days and weeks afterwards, as more votes came in – nearly all which went to the Democratic candidate. How on earth could it be that every late vote in every key senate race always went to the Democrat candidate over the Republican?
Moreover, the fact that they have eroded so much of Donald Trump’s popular vote victory is equally alarming: while he is still projected to come out on top, by some estimates the President-elect no longer has the majority of votes (by this count, he still defeated Harris but only by a slim popular vote minority).
The fact that Democrats have eroded so much of Donald Trump’s popular vote margin is equally alarming: while he is still projected to come out on top, by some estimates Trump no longer has the majority of votes (by this count, he still defeated Harris but only by a slim popular vote minority).
