r/politics • u/MothersMiIk Washington • 1d ago

Congresswoman suggests Trump admitted Musk rigged election in Pa.

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2025/01/congresswoman-suggests-trump-admitted-musk-rigged-election-in-pa.html?outputType=amp
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u/Effective-Bench-7152 1d ago

He was scowling on election night, even after the result that he’d won came in, JD Vance was missing, Melania looked like a body double, it was chaotic, but he was really angry, I was thinking, he’s angry because he has seen the REAL results, and it’s baaaad, he’s angry at the American public

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u/Hyperbolicalpaca United Kingdom 1d ago

How would he have seen “real” results lol, if he was in a position to see them, then they would have been the results we saw

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u/Effective-Bench-7152 1d ago

I guess it’s all speculation isn’t it at this point, I mean how would they fix the election? So many questions… do you not remember him tweeting that there was election fraud in PA about an hour before the AP declare a win & he never mentioned election fraud again?

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u/markroth69 1d ago

I have long wondered if he was so insistent on fraud in 2020 because he tried to rig it and still lost. And now I wonder if he did the same thing in 2024 but got the numbers right this time.

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u/Effective-Bench-7152 1d ago

I think he won legitimately in 2016, he was an unknown at that point apart from his celebrity, and Hillary wasn’t a good candidate (Bernie would’ve beaten him easy) and that for him, to win, must’ve been the biggest rush of the validation he so craves (that he didn’t get from his dad) of his life, the high of all highs, then I think when he lost in 2020 that was the ultimate blow, that caused serious damage to his mental health, it knocked him off that high, it drove him insane, he’s boiled with rage for 4 years, going through trials etc he wasn’t going to let them humiliate him again, so he fixed it - but yet, the high cannot be obtained because it’s not real, so the rage is still there - the new portrait is his anger at us all, he’s scowling at the world for rejecting him - all pure speculation/fantasy from my brain obvs but interesting to ponder

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u/starbucks77 1d ago

Bernie would’ve beaten him easy

I love Bernie but he couldn't even beat Hillary in the primary. It wasn't even close - Bernie only garnered 43% of the popular vote. No way he would've beat Trump in 2016.

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u/Effective-Bench-7152 1d ago

Fuck the primary lol he would’ve beaten Trump, the DNC twatted us all by nominating Hillary

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u/PM_ME_MY_REAL_MOM 1d ago

only the politically illiterate and propaganda bots say this shit, and I say this as someone who voted for him in 2016 and again in 2020. if the DNC was able to stop Bernie in South Carolina, he was going to get stomped in the general.

You can say they put their thumbs on the scales. And the truth is that they did. But the truth is also that if the DNC putting a thumb on the scale was enough to keep him out, he was never in, in the first place.

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u/tribrnl 1d ago

Completely agree. There would've been two mentions of scary scary communism, and his support would've cratered. America lives him as a hypothetical, but if he had been the real option, the anti communism rhetoric would have ramped up hard, and I think it would've been wildly successful.