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Trump was certainly not an opposition candidate in 2020.
The amount of fraud necessary to ensure victory in a national election requires a level of coordination that is basically impossible to pull off without generating significant evidence. Doing this against an incumbent using the organs of government is not remotely realistic at any scale.
It’s particularly ironic to compare your sentiments here against documented behavior by Trump explicitly looking to manipulate election outcomes, let alone all the other ways he flouted law and convention. Caring about “legitimacy” above the letter of the law consistently would not lead to a positive view of Trump even if you were entirely correct about the misdeeds against Trump.
The fraud is alleged to have taken place in a handful of counties administered by democrats.
A national election does not turn upon a mere handful of counties.
Somewhere purple like say Maricopa County has tons of conservative voters and government workers; large plots are hard to hide and small ones aren’t enough to matter as claimed.
Trump lost by 40k votes, which could easily be delivered in only a few counties. The 2020 election was extremely close and Georgia or Michigan having been swung by fraud in 1-3 counties is extremely plausible, but not proven.
The real trick is knowing which counties in which states will do the swinging in advance, and setting it all up to just lightly tweak the results.
You can’t just look with the benefit of hindsight and think it’s easy to set up a coordinated plan to just barely win.
In countries with rigged elections, it’s not exactly subtle because it’s harder to set up a close victory than a big one.
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