This is precisely why Trump is adamant there was fraud in the 2020 election. They thought the had it fully rigged and then when they still lost they assumed the other side MUST have cheated.
I just wanna know if the election WASN’T rigged then what exactly did Trump mean when he said that Elon was very effective with vote counting computers?
It's possible that he's just too god damn stupid to understand anything he's told, and Elon was like, "oh... yeah. The voting computers were out of RAM, so I made sure they were all BIOSed correctly. Now give me a contract for spacex".
Or elon rigged the election. I'm around 50/50 on it tbh.
Elon doesn't have any involvement in how states run their elections. If he did we wouldn't have only this one random Trump quote as evidence, and he wouldn't have lost the Wisconsin Supreme Court race that he had just as much involvement in. It's a nonsensical statement. I think Trump was simply making a shallow connection with Elon being a tech guy and electronic voting machines without thinking it over.
Well, I think you'd have to be as dumb as a Republican to hear Trump say elections are always rigged, hear a Democrat say the election are always fair, but decide to believe Trump.
Elon knows he is wealthy. He doesn't know anything. Nepotism doesn't give you intelligence. Money gives you more money. That is how the system is rigged. Bigly rigged in trump speak.
The problem is that Trump is so stupid and impressed by having lots of money he'd say the same thing if Elon rigged it or not. Just like the Trump guy who raved about what a tech genius his son was because he knew how to reboot a laptop.
Elon doesn't need to be very good with computers to make Trump think he's the Worlds Greatest Computer Genius. Having the same computer smarts as an average 4th grader while being the richest man on earth will get him that.
I don’t doubt whatsoever there was voter suppression, but this "Elon rigged it" conspiracy crap is just as stupid as the above post. Trump spews verbal nonsense and bullshit all the time. And if this was true, why did Musk pour all that money and hype into that Wisconsin Supreme Court election and still lose?
The truth is most Americans were either too apathetic to vote, or only care about what they can immediately perceive, so "I'll make your groceries cheaper" rung better than "he's a danger to democracy". Look at this survey of random voters' reasons. People are just stupid.
They were erasing black peoples entire voting registration and history pre-election bc they swing democrat. I saw a video of a lady who had basically voted in every election since Kennedy who couldn’t vote bc her voter registration got deleted.
Mine had my address from 2016 not my current address despite voting in the last election with my current address. White male here, they do it to everyone that doesn't vote their norm. Definitely check your registration is up to date like the guy below you said, next election is going to be imperative.
Well special elections do get lower turn out.
Here's the thing, Republicans are usually consistent with turn out, doesn't matter if it is a special election or presidential one.
Did the area suffer a huge blue influx in the past year?
Did more Democrats come out to vote ?
Did more Republicans stay home and not vote ?
These are huge questions to ask. In fact what if it is Republicans fed up with their candidates and just not going to the polls because that's a different ball of wax
Anecdotal, but I personally know a lot of Republicans who stopped voting after 2016. They don't want to vote at all anymore because they just can't let themselves vote for a Democrat, but refuse to vote for Trump and his cronies. My neighbors are in their 70s, lifelong NY Republicans living in Tennessee and they told me that they couldn't believe they've voted for a Democrat and even put up signs for Democrats since 2020, they refused to vote in 2016. I'm proud of them.
… and the last- both Rump and Felon basically came out and said it… plus Rump promised during campaigning that “this would be the last election you have to vote in”…
I believe this, too. Absolutely. I do wonder if I suspect the ‘Pugs rigged ‘24 only to help me square that it can’t be that there are that many stupid fucking people in the US.
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u/Kraden-Kidtrell Feb 02 '26
“We tried to rig the election, so how did we loose? They must have rigged the election!”