Some right-wingers still won’t let go of conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election. Andy Schlafly is beating the drums anew in his March 13 WorldNetDaily column:
The U.S. Department of Justice has more than 10,000 attorneys standing around looking for something legitimate to do, now that the Trump administration has shut down their liberal lawfare against conservatives. Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has cost-cutters in every federal agency except, apparently, the DOJ.
Some of the high-flying DOJ projects, including prosecuting candidate Trump and two of his loyal employees in Florida, have been properly canceled. This and other dismissals, including calling off the time-consuming DOJ prosecution of New York City Mayor Eric Adams, have left an army of DOJ attorneys with little to do.
So here’s an idea for something Department of Justice should investigate: the unexplained spike in 6.3 million votes that magically appeared out of nowhere to be counted for Joe Biden in 2020, which disappeared again in 2024.
Trump was credited with 74.2 million votes in 2020, which increased to 77.3 million in 2024. That 4% growth in votes reflects the overwhelming crowds and enormous enthusiasm he generated.
But the Democrat nominee for president reportedly received 65.9 million votes in 2016, unexpectedly claimed 81.3 million votes in 2020 (an implausible 23% increase in four years), and yet only 75 million votes four years later in 2024. Trump has correctly pointed out that mail-in voting, which was its highest in 2020, is particularly vulnerable to election fraud.
[…]Some attribute this sharp rise in Democrat ballots in 2020 to relaxed voting requirements due to COVID. But only if that were combined with substantial fraud could a 6.3 million surge for the Democrat side be attained, and that fraud needs to be uncovered and prosecuted.
Americans need to be assured that 6.3 million unexplained votes won’t be counted for a future Democrat presidential candidate. Indeed, making sure that such phantom votes do not magically reappear from nowhere in a future election should be first on the priority list of Trump’s DOJ.
Yet here we are, nearly a half-year after the 2024 results have been counted and compared to the 2020 numbers, and no analysis explains this mystery. While the media insist that no specific evidence of fraud was proved in the 2020 election, Democrats blocked independent signature verification of mail-in ballots and instead are prosecuting citizens who challenged the reported results.
What Schlafly does not do, however, is point to any credible evidence to back up his conspiracy theory. The complete lack of evidence to back up his conspiracy theory is not evidence. His demand for an investigation into something that likely doesn’t exist is simply an attempt to perpetuate never-proven right-wing narratives about purported election fraud.