As polarizing as a guy like Trump has been, I think there's one thing all of us can agree on, and it's that nearly every establishment politician is corrupt, rotten, and not to be trusted. So they can conduct all the investigations and recounts they want, doesn't matter Democrats or Republicans leading them, and I'll take the result NOT with a "grain" of salt but with a "pound" of it.
What I do trust is simple common sense and my own intuition. And my intuition says that while Obama was also polarizing, he was WILDLY POPULAR among enormous swaths of voting groups, so it was no surprise that he set a new all-time vote record in 2008. On the other hand Joe Biden, even before the election, wasn't popular among anyone, and yet counted almost 12,000,000 more votes than Obama's previous record. And there are only two conceivable ways he could have done that:
- More people hated Trump than the number who previously supported Obama, since every vote for Biden was not a vote FOR Biden at all, but simply a vote against Trump
OR
- They cheated
I can't see #1 as even remotely believable when you look at Trump's popularity despite his polarizing effect, as demonstrated by the massive attendance at his rallies AND the fact that Trump ALSO exceeded Obama's previous vote-getting record. And while many accuse Trump of trying to "overturn" the election result, I never heard an accusation that Republicans tried to pad the vote count in favor of Trump.
In other words, I just can't imagine that 12,000,000 more people came out to vote "against Trump" than ever voted "for Obama", especially when it meant voting for a stupid oaf like Biden simply because they didn't like Trump's boorish personality.
Sorry, but no one will ever convince me that vote tallies compiled by a bunch of corrupt partisan scumbags are more reliable than common sense and what we can deduce with logical reasoning.