Was the U.S. election rigged? Brock University associate professor of political science, Paul Hamilton, says those who believe it was would have to explain why a majority conservative U.S. Supreme Court rejected Trump’s bid to overturn the results and more.
Paul Hamilton, Brock University political science associate professor
Was the U.S. election rigged against U.S. President Donald Trump?
Well, the first question I would ask anyone who made those comments would be, is it possible for a Democrat to win the presidential election in the United States? Because I want to establish that it was possible for Joe Biden to have won because you get the impression that they’re appealing to some metaphysical rule that Joe Biden could not have won. He just simply couldn’t have won. And I don’t believe that, and it’s obviously not possible because it was a competitive election. So, that would be my first point. The second point I would make is that over 50 court cases, many of which were heard by Trump appointees to the bench of the Supreme Court, which is now a majority conservative appointed court, refused to hear or rejected the evidence of the complaints in over 50 court cases.
The people who claim the election was stolen must also believe that Republican officials in states like Georgia were in on the steal. It’s absolutely mind boggling to me that anyone would believe that this was possible. Statistically speaking, in an election where over 160 million people vote, there’s always going to be the odd irregularity, but none of the one’s found amount to anything that could alter the result of the election. And so if someone heard what I just said and still believe that somehow the election had been stolen or was rigged, I guess I would appeal to them for their evidence, I’ve never seen any. And after that, I’m not sure what I can say to change someone’s mind.
There is a kind of mindset that just assumes that Joe Biden could not have won and I’m not sure what I could do to change that person’s mind.
You can watch the entire interview with Paul Hamilton and Jenn Merritt, a Hamilton woman who no longer speaks with her American relatives due to disagreements over the Trump presidency, below.
After four years of the presidency of former reality television star Donald Trump, Hamilton’s Jenn Merritt doesn’t talk much to her family in the U.S.. We talked with Merritt and Brock University associate professor of political science, Paul Hamilton, about the Capitol Hill riot, the Trump presidency and more. 31:41
