{"id":49435,"date":"2021-10-11T00:56:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T00:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49435"},"modified":"2021-10-11T00:56:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T00:56:52","slug":"yes-but-he-still-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49435","title":{"rendered":"Yes, but he still lost!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/201030094346-01-austin-tx-early-voting-1013-super-tease.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44952\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/201030094346-01-austin-tx-early-voting-1013-super-tease-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/201030094346-01-austin-tx-early-voting-1013-super-tease-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/201030094346-01-austin-tx-early-voting-1013-super-tease-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/201030094346-01-austin-tx-early-voting-1013-super-tease-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/201030094346-01-austin-tx-early-voting-1013-super-tease.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those who adhere to the cult beliefs of the 45th president of the United States keep telling us that the will and wishes of &#8220;74 million American voters&#8221; should not be ignored.<\/p>\n<p>OK. I get that. More than 74 million voters cast their ballots for the guy who finished second in the race for the presidency in 2020. That is the second-greatest vote total ever recorded; the greatest vote total was rolled up by President Biden, who pulled in more than 81 ballots.<\/p>\n<p>And, yes, they were legitimately cast ballots.<\/p>\n<p>So, to the sore losers who cannot accept that their guy finished second in a two-man for the presidency in 2020 I say only: <em>Get the fu** over it!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>They won&#8217;t. Not as long as their cult hero continues to foment The Big Lie about vote fraud and insist that even with all the &#8220;forensic audits&#8221; he is demanding that he still won the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>There have been many photo finishes over many decades of presidential elections. Richard Nixon lost to John F. Kennedy by 100,000 votes in 1960; he accepted the result and moved on. Al Gore lost to George W. Bush in 2000; that election wasn&#8217;t settled until the Supreme Court stopped a recount in Florida with Bush leading by 537 ballots; Bush was awarded the state&#8217;s electoral votes and he took the oath &#8230; after Gore conceded defeat and pledged his support of the new president.<\/p>\n<p>The yammering that continues to this day about POTUS 45 collecting 74 million votes ignores the obvious, which is that his opponent received 7 million more votes and won the election!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who adhere to the cult beliefs of the 45th president of the United States keep telling us that the will and wishes of &#8220;74 million American voters&#8221; should not be ignored. OK. I get that. More than 74 million voters cast their ballots for the guy who finished second in the race for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49435\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yes, but he still lost!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7225,9631,2505,5129],"class_list":["post-49435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2020-election","tag-big-lie","tag-joe-biden","tag-vote-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49436,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49435\/revisions\/49436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}