I'm just curious and i know the right will be quick to inform me here depending on the answer...
Have there been any losing Democrats who have claimed their elections were stolen, rigged or otherwise unfair or is that just something that Republican candidates have been claiming?
Yeah my memory on it is not great but i think the situation was that it came to light that Gore might not have lost and so they reexamined the results but when the conclusion was decided upon, the Democrat conceded.
Kinda. But they mostly didn’t claim fraudulent ballots, dead people voting, threaten election officials, or claim internal conspiracies. Mostly it was the claim that Russian influence swayed the outcome through voter manipulation. The claim is without that interference Trump would have never won. I agree there was Russian interference on social media because I saw it firsthand. I disagree that it changed the outcome because those influenced by the propaganda were probably never going to vote for Clinton anyway.
Didn't an investigation find that indeed Russia had interfered with the election? Not that Trump had colluded with them but that Russia had definitely exerted influence over the election results?
[quote]The claim is without that interference Trump would have never won[/quote]
I think rather that the claim is Trump was aided by foreign interference, not that he stood no chance without it.
[quote]I disagree that it changed the outcome because those influenced by the propaganda were probably never going to vote for Clinton anyway. [/quote]
If propaganda doesn't work then why has it been so consistently used as a tool all over the world throughout history and into the modern day? Surely if it was only influencing people who were already on board with its message then it would serve little purpose.
Some Democrats did in 2016. The difference is that they didn't go on to storm the Capitol or build an entire political movement based on denying objective reality.
hillary refused to concede in 2020. obama had to call her and demand that she issue a press release conceding. then the democrats held 4 years of "russian collusion" congressional hearings in revenge.
