..... he isn't the president elect. He hasn't been certified the winner of any states yet. And since you're bringing up Al Gore, remember that the media prematurely declared him president elect in 2000 as well.
Dude, I get it. Your guy didn't win. I, and the majority of the voters, were there 4 years ago and I/we know it hurts.
But being in (what looks like) denial about it does not help the process of moving on.
Yes, you are right, the media ended up getting it wrong in 2000 , though they missed the mark by an infinitesimally small amount. (less than a thousand votes)
"Once bitten, twice shy" as the saying goes. It's why they didn't call it yesterday.
I'll level with you. I think there was widespread voter fraud and shenanigans. I still have just enough trust in our American system to believe that any illegitimate votes will be nullified, one way or another.
I find it odd that, for the 2016 US Presidential election, more than 71 million people tuned in to watch it on television but for the 2020 election only a little over 59 million people watched. A record number of votes were cast for this 2020 election -
in fact, this election had the highest voter turnout in 120 years - but somehow that didn't translate into a record number of viewers tuning in to see how their chosen candidate made out.
I haven't watched network or cable TV for more than a decade at this point. It's all streaming on demand. News I get from yahoo, reuters, etc. You better believe there were a record number of viewers on this election, just not necessarily watching television. Also don't really get the voter fraud angle, it's the default goto for the right whenever they get pissy about something, and every single time it's shown they were wrong about it. Voter fraud is such an infinitesimally small problem that it almost doesn't exist, and chances are equal that it will be someone on the right or left that does it.
Now voter suppression on the other hand. That's real. I'll give you 2 guesses which side of the ideological divide dominates that in the USA.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/texas-voter-suppression-covid/ Sure, a lot of people have switched to streaming but at the same time, there were also 70+ million television viewers for the first Presidential debate. As for the voter fraud angle, even if it seems to be an infinitesimally small problem, when you lose by an infinitesimally small percentage of the votes in certain states, it becomes a big problem. I would argue that both sides (and possibly others) have resorted to underhanded and possibly illegal tactics to sway the results of the election for the biggest prize in the western world; that prize doesn't only go to the Americans. You only have to go back one election to see that the left also gets pissy when they lose - blaming Russian meddling, wikileaks (even though they were were her own, unprotected, and damning emails so if you take it back to first principles, it was Clinton herself who was to blame) and Comey. I would argue that in general it's the
loser who resorts to the (possibly false) accusation and blame game. Now, if Trump had won and then blamed voter fraud for not winning by a larger margin (and I consider that to be a possibility), I might have conceded without further discussion.