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Ultimate in Trump Humiliation: Despite Boasts, Arizona Audit Showing Biden Winning

Maybe they were true believers?

We never considered the possibility that the people hired to do the audit in Arizona took it very seriously and were simply certain that if someone did a “proper count” it would show that Trump won. Perhaps they are doing a proper count, perhaps they are getting a very depressing surprise.

Perhaps they’re rethinking their strategy. According to a Rawstory original, things aren’t going as planned:

Critics of the big lie, who range from state officials (including Republicans) to voting rights advocates — and, of course, Democrats— have mostly emphasized that the Arizona Senate’s inquiry and copycat efforts in other states are bad faith exercises led by Trump supporters who lack election auditing experience.

Right, but it’s not going as well as they thought:

Sources with access to the contractors’ operations have told Voting Booth that the contractors now know that their hand count of 2.1 million ballots was initially sloppy, and cannot account for thousands of ballots in the official results. (Hence, a new count.) But what the contractors are doing in private, behind locked doors in a Phoenix warehouse, is the opposite of what they have been saying in public, which is pedaling vote-theft conspiracies.

So the effort that started out filmed and out in the open in an arena has now gone behind closed doors? We know that many ballots are in a cabin in Montana for god’s sake. If it were obviously successful, they’d be out in front of our faces.

To jump to the conclusion and abide by fair-use restrictions (to which we always adhere), the goals have somewhat changed and the stated methods even more so. It is, an embarrassment:

The session ended with Arizona state Senate President Karen Fann reciting her oft-stated disclaimer that the inquiry was not about overturning her state’s 2020 presidential results, but merely addressing the doubts of Republican voters. “At no time have we ever implied or inferred that there is any intentional misdoings here in any way whatsoever, and, in fact, we certainly hope not,” she said. “But we do need to have this information and answer these questions.”

Umm, we call BS? Even if she is telling the truth, which we do not believe, certainly for Trump and national Republican-MAGAs, the goal was to reverse the election, no matter how unconstitutional. We need also point out that the recount was limited to Maricopa county, the county Biden won by the biggest margin. There was never any movement to recount those areas where Trump won by a large margin, which – if there were problems in the tallies, might show Trump’s votes were overcounted.

It is pretty straightforward, and pretty clearly not going well.

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Jason
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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