Even before polls opened on Election Day, legacy media were already pushing the narrative that the country would be seeing a “red mirage” on Nov. 5, claiming Republican margins will appear greater than they actually are before large numbers of likely-Democrat absentee ballots are counted.
“You’re going to see a ‘red mirage,’ where it seems like Trump is doing better than he actually is, because they haven’t counted and reported those absentee ballots yet, then the blue shift when those ballots are introduced to add to the totals — that could be in the middle of the night. It certainly was in 2020,” Wisconsin Democrat Party Chair Ben Wikler said on MSNBC on Tuesday.
In 2020, Election Day came to an end with Trump leading the race by “comfortable margins,” as The Federalist’s John Daniel Davidson wrote. However, early morning ballot dumps the next day in the crucial states of Wisconsin and Michigan somehow “showed 100 percent of the votes going for Biden and zero percent — that’s zero, so not even one vote — for Trump.”
Ahead of the 2022 midterms, Democrats and the media sought to normalize concepts like the so-called “red mirage,” working to, as The Federalist previously noted, “prim[e] voters to expect GOP gains to evaporate once mail-in and absentee ballots — which skew heavily Democratic — are counted in the coming days and weeks.”
They’re perpetuating the same psyop in 2024.
The margin in Wisconsin is currently razor thin, with RealClearPolitics placing Harris 0.4
