Media are openly preparing to slander anything former President Donald Trump says about irregularities in the 2024 election with the asinine smear of “election denial.” But if the 2024 election is anything like the 2020 election, Democrat partisans are trying to tilt the scales in their favor.
Demanding that Trump and his supporters renounce all claims that the 2020 election was somehow “rigged” or “stolen” has become a de rigeur “gotcha” tactic for corporate media figures grilling Trump and his supporters.
For example, J.D. Vance’s superlative performance in the vice presidential debate with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was harshly criticized because of his “damning non-answer” to the “gotcha” question, posed during the debate’s final minutes by Walz: “Did he (Donald Trump) lose the 2020 election?” As Vox put it, it was “The only moment in the debate that really mattered.”
More recently, Vance was badgered by The New York Times’ Lulu Garcia-Navarro in a long-form interview on Oct. 12, when she posed the question five times: “Senator, yes or no. Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?” Vance’s refusal to answer the question to the media’s satisfaction has subsequently generated even more consternation, as New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie, for example, recently fretted that “J.D. Vance’s Election Denialism is Deepening.”
Rigged Election
The problem is that Trump may not have lost a free and fair election in 2020. Many believe that he lost a “rigged” election that was manipulated by censorship, lawfare, and voting irregularities to virtually guarantee that he would
