Permit me a timely if controversial ‘dog with a bone’ essay, in which I play the dog. Here’s the bone: Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 US presidential election is highly suspect. This is now also highly timely, as the 2024 election looms – whoever is the ultimate Democrat candidate. Why is this bone still between my keyboard teeth, after several essays on this topic?

First, this dog doesn’t trust the Democrats to allow a fair election process. Readers will not need reminders that the Democrats (with a team of supporting institutions) have pursued Donald Trump in every possible way from investigations, impeachments, multiple court cases, massive financial hurdles, cancelled on social media and a storm of smear campaigns. For example, remember the well financed (and since debunked) Democrat plan to paint him as a Putin puppet, repeated as a three-part ‘story of the century’? The Trump pursuit has grown ever more fevered in this election cycle, resorting to extensive lawfare in an attempt to take him out of the race for the White House.

It is against this background that I refuse to let go of my bone.

It is contentious, I grant you. Many scoff. Just the other day (July 19) The Australian ran an editorial about Trump’s status in this campaign, which included this line: ‘Never in his wildest dreams, after his bogus claim that he was robbed of victory in 2020, could he have imagined the display of unity and reverence for him on display in Milwaukee.’ That his claim is bogus is a view shared across the board by media – and of course, his opponents and haters.

But this dog is part of a pack. In two separate polls, one conducted jointly by the Washington Post and University of Maryland in late 2023 and another conducted by CNN earlier in the year, it appeared that between 36 per cent and 38 per cent of Americans surveyed believe that the election of President Joe Biden was illegitimate. In November 2023, a Superior Court Judge overturned a Democrat mayoral primary election in Bridgeport, Connecticut, due to surveillance video footage that revealed individuals apparently stuffing multiple absentee ballots into ballot drop boxes. Cheating (aka voter fraud) goes to character.

Second, there has never been a rational explanation for the 2020 phenomenon that in several states, Joe Biden, after a campaign spent largely in his basement, was allocated more votes than Democrat superstar politician Barack Obama had secured in his last race in 2012. On its face, that seems an inherently unlikely outcome, especially now that Biden’s ability to ‘f… things up’ as Obama put it, are so evident.

Here are some examples:

In 2012, Barack Obama won 1,773,827 votes in Georgia. In 2020, we are told Biden won 2,473,633, a stunning 39 per cent more than Obama. (Population up only 7.4 per cent since 2010.) Trump got 2,461,854 Georgia votes (up from 2,089,104 in 2016).

Obama in 2012 won 531,373 votes in Nevada; Biden, we are led to believe, won 703,486. Trump, got 669,890 (up from 512,058 in 2016).

In 2012, Obama won 1,025,232 votes in Arizona. Biden, we are asked to believe, got 1,672,143. Trump, got 1,661,686 (up from 1,252,401 in 2016).

Note the narrow winning margins: 11,779, 33,596, 10,457… just enough.

And here’s the supporting evidence: in the same election, despite the apparent support for Democrat Biden, Republicans won over a dozen House seats and lost none. Voters chose Biden but rejected other Democrats on the ballot; odd, no?

Given the hysteria of the anti-Trump left, a former FBI agent’s ‘we’ll stop him’ mantra, and the boastful 2020 Time magazine article The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election, suspicions about voter fraud are fully justified. As to the claims taken to court, they were mostly dismissed before being heard. A few suffered a fate like the claim made by an election worker, alleging she saw two vans which were meant to bring food, but she says she ‘never saw any food coming out of the vans…’

Biden’s win is not credible. The machinations to get him elected and the decision to make Kamala Harris his VP is now paying dividends – in karma, I suggest.

A silent dread could be adding to Democrat fears of a Republican victory in 2024: the possible uncovering of the 2020 voter fraud that shoehorned Biden into the White House. Then I could bury this bone.