He probably didn't. He was polling very well. Very well. Better than his last two elections for a long time. People pretended he couldn't win and I admittedly didn't think they'd do that since that's exactly what happened in 2016.
Simply assuming the election was stolen will be a mistake because that mindset will help Republicans win their next election. The voters wanted an irreparably changed supreme court and Trump functionally immune from prosecution and that's what the voters got.
Um, or not realizing the danger we are literally in right now will be a mistake.
Think of what Trump has literally said:
He wants a purge night, and a purge for "woke" military members (this is literally a military take over by Russia)
He wants to take away freedom of speech for leftists
He wants to end birthright citizenship
You will never vote again after this election
There won't be a next election. He is a Russian asset meant to take all of our money and kill us. The voters didn't decide anything, Russia did. To kill us.
I reformatted my post for clarity if that helps. I have been trying to gather reputable sources and more info as story unfolds and I think I let it get too messy.
There are reasons to want Congress to stop him apart from "stealing" the election (which I don't think happened). Particularly the 14th amendment which states insurrectionists cannot hold office.
Summary of evidence and concerns:
Trump is a Russian asset working for Putin (see book American Kompromat by journalist Craig Unger or Active Measures documentary with Hillary Clinton(1)). Trump stole election software in 2020 ((2),sources below). Similarly, Elon Musk has been in contact with Russia for the last 2 years (3). This includes during the Ukraine War when Russia began using Starlink (4) while it was claimed they got them third party and not from Musk himself; however now appears imo to show Elon is a doublecrosser.
Starlink, Elon's satellite company, was installed in some voting machines across the country (5) and may have interfered with vote tabulation. Voting machines were found to be connected to the internet (6). An independent report on voting machines concluded that tabulation tampering was possible with current voting machines, so hand counts are vital (7). In September, Politico had an investigation finding Russian malware on a state voter registration database (8). Also, there were malicious fake texts from fake DNC organizations, connected to Elon who donated to them, that were fishing voter info (9). Elon and Trump are working together (10). Elon had results of election on an app 4 hours before official counts had it (11).
They will release more info admitting their fraud because they are a Russian asset trying to start a civil war here (speculation). Trump has refused to write an ethics statement for transition of power saying he will transition peacefully (12). JD Vance has also told the EU that unless they allow X unfettered access to the EU (to spread propaganda), they will withdraw the US from NATO (13) - which will prompt wars or takeover either way and weakens Germany, who is entering an election since their government couldn't agree on Ukraine budget.
Also speculation, are reports of widespread ballot rejection, especially for signatures. There are articles claiming already that it is because GenZ does not know cursive (14) - except the signature simply must match your driver's license. It's not a cursive writing test. Avocado toast but with gen z voting fraud. We do not yet have the ballot rejection rates but typically they are around 1% to 1.5% (15).
Crypto is how right wing conservatism got funded here. It's why it took off- it was basically UBI for those men, funded by foreign intelligence for this purpose along with other uses for crypto like dark money, drugs, trafficking, etc (16)(17). The least informed people we knew were investing in crypto when it was starting, mining bitcoins. They couldn't tell you what a stock or tariff is, yet they were making bank in crypto trading. Crypto trading, especially memecoins, appears to be an obvious scam to most because it's the stock market without ownership. So why were these 4chan pedophiles and nazis doing so well? Because it was just meant to give them money the whole time. And crypto is great for transferring money internationally from shady organizations to shady people (18). Far right catchphrases and meme campaigns dispersed online including X, give out the key words/catchphrases for the new coin that isn't a scam and will disperse money. People who are deep in these groups interner algorithms get these keywords first and normal outsiders will either not notice or will stay away. No normal person wants a coin that references Hitler if they are just scrolling memecoins.
Once the government has been taken over, they can force their memecoin as the national currency and then rug pull, which is also what Musk is likely going to do to Tesla at the same time. The entire point is to bankrupt America for Putin and his cartoon villain cohorts. Musk is already saying he wants to withdraw from US currency due to national debt (Trump added most of the national debt) (19).
If you're in Germany, take note. They are coming for you next, your election is soon.
"If you can watch your vote counter, if we can bring God down from heaven (he's referencing Starlink), we can win this, win California, win a lot of states."
If Trump was so sure the election was rigged and they were going to turnover every state including California, then why hasn't he asked for a recount in all the states with representatives that didn't get elected that he thought would be? Shouldn't he be suing for recounts? He did it last time. Why doesn't he want an investigation this time?
Edited for better formating with links, added sources bc I thought some things were common knowledge &maybe they aren't actually
YouTube is indeed a source as people have official YouTube channels. I'm linking a video of someone saying something - that's a source. People who are young think sources are only weblinks because they've never written a bibliography without links in it at all. That used to be the norm.
"There is no evidence to support the claims spreading on social media. US voting machines are typically disconnected from the internet in order to prevent interference.
Last week Jen Easterly, director of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said there was “no evidence of any malicious activity that had a material impact on the security or integrity of our election infrastructure”.
Allegations that there are millions of “missing” votes have been spread by both Democrats unhappy about Trump’s victory and Republicans who claimed the theories vindicate their concerns about the 2020 result.
The discrepancy in the number of votes cast is mostly down to slow vote counting in California, which as of Monday had only processed around 74pc of ballots despite being called for Kamala Harris days ago."
I'm not going through the rest of the claims as it's obviously just so much tinfoil hattery.
Youtube is not a source, anyone can go on Youtube and say anything.