Media Downplay GOP Voter Turnout As Another ‘Red Mirage’
The article discusses the media narrative surrounding election results, particularly the concept of a “red mirage,” where initial Republican margins in voting appear larger than they are due to uncounted absentee ballots that tend to favor Democrats. Wisconsin Democrat Party Chair Ben Wikler highlighted on MSNBC that this scenario could replicate the events of the previous elections, wherein large counts of absentee ballots shifted the apparent leading candidate. The article claims that Democrats and media outlets have been pushing this narrative to condition voters to expect such dynamics in future elections, particularly in the context of the upcoming 2024 elections. The author asserts that this manipulation of public perception seeks to create a narrative surrounding election integrity while potentially obscuring irregularities in the ballot counting process. Logan Washburn, the author, emphasizes the need for transparency and swift results in elections, critiquing the normalization of delayed ballot counting and the implications it may have for electoral integrity.
Even before polls opened on Election Day, legacy media were already pushing the narrative that the country would be seeing a “red mirage” on Nov. 5, claiming Republican margins will appear greater than they actually are before large numbers of likely-Democrat absentee ballots are counted.
“You’re going to see a ‘red mirage,’ where it seems like Trump is doing better than he actually is, because they haven’t counted and reported those absentee ballots yet, then the blue shift when those ballots are introduced to add to the totals — that could be in the middle of the night. It certainly was in 2020,” Wisconsin Democrat Party Chair Ben Wikler said on MSNBC on Tuesday.
In 2020, Election Day came to an end with Trump leading the race by “comfortable margins,” as The Federalist’s John Daniel Davidson wrote. However, early morning ballot dumps the next day in the crucial states of Wisconsin and Michigan somehow “showed 100 percent of the votes going for Biden and zero percent — that’s zero, so not even one vote — for Trump.”
Ahead of the 2022 midterms, Democrats and the media sought to normalize concepts like the so-called “red mirage,” working to, as The Federalist previously noted, “prim[e] voters to expect GOP gains to evaporate once mail-in and absentee ballots — which skew heavily Democratic — are counted in the coming days and weeks.”
They’re perpetuating the same psyop in 2024.
The margin in Wisconsin is currently razor thin, with RealClearPolitics placing Harris 0.4 percent ahead of former President Donald Trump as of Tuesday.
“You won’t know the full picture in Wisconsin using statewide numbers until you see those final absentee ballots get counted,” Wikler said. “It’s not over until it’s over in Wisconsin.”
MSNBC Host Joe Scarborough also told Americans they should expect a “red mirage.” Both Scarborough and Wikler blamed the delays on Republican lawmakers for not allowing early processing of absentee ballots. Scarborough suggested that Republicans did not allow early processing of absentee ballots in these states “because they want Donald Trump to be able to lie if it looks like he is ahead.”
But as The Federalist previously noted, “polling locations now routinely count mail-in and absentee ballots days or even weeks past Election Day” which is “absurd,” because “[t]hese delays only increase the likelihood of election irregularities and illegal votes (by allowing Democratic operatives to ‘find’ or ‘cure’ the necessary ballots they need to put their candidates over the top).”
Nonetheless, Democrats and the propaganda media not only adamantly insist that these delays are normal, but that Americans, despite decades of same-day election results, should expect them.
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