Analysis | California’s recall becomes the new epicenter of unfounded fraud claims

One of the things that never made sense about the claims of rampant voter fraud in the 2020 election was that President Donald Trump actually did better than the polls predicted in most states, often substantially. In other words, the polls that he repeatedly insisted were rigged to aid Joe Biden (because they suppressed enthusiasm among Trump’s voters, he claimed) for unexplained reasons actually proved that there was more support for Trump than expected. It’s a fool’s errand to try to map logic onto claims that are not rooted in rationality, but this is still befuddling. If you’re deciding the results, why not just have the polls reflect those results? And why bother suppressing votes if you’re deciding the totals anyway?

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