{"id":34550,"date":"2020-11-04T12:34:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T16:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=34550"},"modified":"2020-11-04T19:18:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T23:18:00","slug":"trump-surprise-ballot-dumps-behind-lead-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=34550","title":{"rendered":"Trump: &#8216;Surprise Ballot Dumps&#8217; Behind Lead Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>President Trump took to Twitter on Wednesday claiming that<strong>\u00a0&#8216;surprise ballot dumps&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong>are to blame for his lead &#8216;magically disappearing&#8217; overnight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/trump%20pointing%201a.jpg?itok=lzS1CgIE\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/trump%20pointing%201a.jpg?itok=lzS1CgIE\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/trump%20pointing%201a.jpg?itok=gG_tFEOt 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/trump%20pointing%201a.jpg?itok=gG_tFEOt 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/trump%20pointing%201a.jpg?itok=gG_tFEOt 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/trump%20pointing%201a.jpg?itok=gG_tFEOt 2x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/trump%20pointing%201a.jpg?itok=gG_tFEOt 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/trump%20pointing%201a.jpg?itok=lzS1CgIE 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/trump%20pointing%201a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"87ac2d69-0d88-4b74-97b9-7d9d8c3da628\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last night I was leading, often solidly, in many key States, in almost all instances Democrat run &amp; controlled,&#8221; wrote Trump, adding: &#8220;Then, one by one, they started to magically disappear as surprise ballot dumps were counted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad__wrapper-element\"><\/div>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s comments come after\u00a0<strong>several key states mysteriously stopped counting ballots on election night\u00a0<\/strong>for the first time in perhaps ever, after which large batches of votes &#8211; seemingly all, or mostly all for Biden &#8211; tipped the race towards the former Vice President in Michigan and Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad__wrapper-element\"><\/div>\n<p>Money manager Edward Dowd suggests it&#8217;s &#8216;<strong>mathematically impossible<\/strong>&#8216; for the nearly all of the overnight votes in Wisconsin to have been for Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Others have noted that\u00a0<strong>there were more votes counted in Wisconsin than the number of people registered to vote<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Sean Davis of\u00a0<em>The Federalist<\/em>\u00a0pointed out the &#8216;magical ballots&#8217; issue,\u00a0<strong>and was promptly censored for it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And now we wait for Democrats to finish counting<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>And a question:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Is there an honest explanation for why major cities in a First World country cannot count votes in a national election that comes around every 4 years? Are these Democratic-run cities surprised that these elections are being held? This is the stuff of a banana republic.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gray Connolly (@GrayConnolly) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrayConnolly\/status\/1323891114173083648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/trump-surprise-ballot-dumps-behind-lead-changes\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/trump-surprise-ballot-dumps-behind-lead-changes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}