Clear connection
In the hours, days and weeks after the November 2016 election, the exit polling showed a clear connection between the blue collar working class, their economic anxiety centered on the loss of manufacturing jobs and free trade particularly in the rust belt states, aka the Blue Wall. These states swung heavily for Donald Trump.
Shortly after the election and as the results came in, the first attempt to delegitimize the Trump Presidency was the narrative that “he lost the popular vote”.
This is true; Donald Trump did not win the popular vote thanks to one state, California, which Hillary Clinton won by over 4 million votes. Aside from this one state, Donald Trump won the other 49 states and the District of Columbia by nearly 2 million votes.
When that didn’t stick, the next narrative was FBI Director James Comey’s decision to release a statement about the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails just prior to the election. That just kind of fizzled out and didn’t really stick either.
So now we have Rep. John Lewis’s latest comment “I don’t see this president-elect as a legitimate president” and the ensuing boycott of the inauguration by some of his fellow Democrats is just the latest in a long line of attempts by Democrats to try and delegitimize the November 2016 election results and the Presidency of Donald Trump.
There is little doubt that Russian operatives hacked into the email accounts of the DNC and John Podesta and releasing some of those emails which shown a negative light on the DNC and the Clinton campaign.
The one thing this latest attempt to delegitimize the election result still fails to show is how the attempted influence in our election by the Russians caused the American blue collar worker to turn out in number voting for a President Trump centered on their economic concerns which had been ignored for the past 15 years.
Gavin T. Ferringer
Lock Haven
Submitted by Virtual Newsroom
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