{"id":12717,"date":"2020-11-12T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T14:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12717"},"modified":"2020-11-11T18:05:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T02:05:00","slug":"an-election-day-bridge-too-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/an-election-day-bridge-too-far\/","title":{"rendered":"An Election Day Bridge Too Far"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No wonder half the public is concerned about irregularities in the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/11\/trumps-vote-count-lawsuits-the-election-endgame\/\" target=\"_blank\">2020 voting<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No wonder they would support <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/trump-plans-to-hold-large-scale-rallies-as-he-contests-election-results\/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> skepticism, once a reputable legal team quickly, publicly, and transparently presents to the nation justified concerns about constitutional violations in changing state voting laws and documented accounts of computer glitches, inexplicable late arrivals of ballot troves, and systemic efforts to prevent transparency \u2014 all at a level that reasonably could question the authenticity of the final vote count or even serve a dire warning of things to come<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Voting sanctity was not just questioned by Trump. It became a recent issue in 2016. Then-Green Party candidate Jill Stein was used as a surrogate by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic establishment \u2014 to the chagrin of her own supporters \u2014 to sue in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania to overturn the 2016 election. The charge was deliberate voting-machine irregularities, for which there was not even much anecdotal evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When that failed, the Left went full Hollywood with a media blitz to convince the American people that the election was a fraud and the electors had to do their \u201cpatriotic\u201d duty to overturn the mandates of their own state \u2014 and reject Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/11\/an-election-day-bridge-too-far\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review No wonder half the public is concerned about irregularities in the 2020 voting. No wonder they would support Donald Trump\u2019s skepticism, once a reputable legal team quickly, publicly, and transparently presents to the nation justified concerns about constitutional violations in changing state voting laws and documented accounts of computer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3j7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10333,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/10333-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":12717,"position":0},"title":"From A Not So Angry\u2026","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 28, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"From A Not So Angry Reader: Dr. Hanson: I am a frequent listener to the Classicist. 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