Thank God, Joe Biden Won By A Lot

Sean O'Leary
4 min readMay 19, 2021

If ballots were counted on time in 2020, Joe Biden would’ve won before bedtime on Election Night.

The collective political news media, as well as too much of the general public, seem to forget how Republicans engineered a “close” election where one didn’t actually exist. The “red mirage” was discussed for weeks, if not months, as Republicans fought the counting of mail-in ballots prior to Election Day in key states such as Pennsylvania and Georgia.

As we saw on Election Night, it was actually very easy to count ballots prior to Election Day. Florida, which had been processing mail-in ballots for years, had their results in and the state called by 10 pm. The fact it went red, of course, scared the bejesus out of people into thinking Joe Biden was going to lose.

Instead, Joe Biden did not lose. In fact, he won by a lot. He won Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin by a combined 200,000+ votes, well out of the reach of recounts. Forget the much closer wins in Arizona and Georgia — Biden only needed those three states to take the Presidency and he took them with relative ease.

Imagine a world where Joe Biden wins by midnight on Election Night.

We don’t live in that world. We live in one where an engineered controversy gave oxygen to the Big Lie that persists to this very moment some seven…

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