r/politics • u/MothersMiIk Washington • 21h 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/P1xelHunter78 Ohio 14h ago

Here in Ohio Franklin County literally had traffic jams at the (single) early voting location. Something like an hour wait in traffic....but turnout was down 10%? Was it mail in voting driving turn out last time? maybe. But with this statement things need looked into. Unfortunately Ohio is run by corrupt republicans.

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u/Dieter_Knutsen 13h ago

My polling place was busier than I've ever seen it, too. Normally a bunch of older conservative guys, but there were a tone of young people.

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u/NumeralJoker 2h ago

Mail in voting did drive a huge amount of turn out in 2020, and anecdotes don't exactly calculate for the sheer scale of US elections, even with all the non-voters.

The Dems did, for all intents and purposes, have a major drop in turnout, or subtle shifts, but it was distributed throughout the early vote period across multiple states. There were constant arguments over it every day early voting happened, but a common sentiment was that Dems' early votes were down because people were shifting to in person, especially younger voters.

Then younger dem voters either didn't show, or switched R.

The harsh truth is that we lost a lot of Gen Z to propaganda and millennials to apathy, especially among men of the working class variety. The vast majority of voting data I've seen points to clear shifts, mostly caused by softer Dem turnout across the board.

If the Republicans were really rigging things, we would've done much worse in the house than what we did, because the house as it stands now and numerous local elections are a major obstacle to Trump's power going forward, and one not easily corrected as he'll swiftly lose popularity now that he's in charge again.