Donald Trump -- It's Time

We are ten days removed from the most unprecedented election in our lifetime. After several long days of watching the election results creep in, we now know one thing to be abundantly clear, and that is that Donald Trump, come January 20, 2021, will not be President of the United States.

It seems almost natural that the President does not want this nightmare to become reality. In fact, we should have seen it coming. The minute the idea of large amounts of mail-in ballots being utilized in the midst of a global pandemic materialized, Trump began shouting fraud. Sure, one could say he was making a fair point, but what ground does that fair point stand on from then to now when there is no factual evidence? To me, it seemed like he was getting his excuses in early.

But now here we are. Per the Associated Press, Joe Biden holds a 290-217 electoral vote lead over Trump, with North Carolina and Georgia being the two states yet to be called. In all likelihood, the final electoral vote will come out to 306-232 in favor of Joe Biden. Additionally, Biden currently holds a 5 million vote lead over Trump in the popular vote.

So what's the issue? It's a simple question with an even simpler answer -- denial and inconsistency.

The Red Mirage was a real thing. Early on in the vote counting process, it truly did seem that Trump was well on his way to another victory. But then, those pesky mail-in ballots. Now, they didn't fall out the sky. They weren't mysteriously dropped off. They were put aside upon receipt to be counted after in-person votes had been tabulated. That was the reality. Another reality, which came back to haunt the President, is that Trump told his supporters to not bother with mail-in voting due to unsupported conspiracies that the election would be rigged and/or their votes would not be counted.

And credit where it's due, the Red Mirage was evidence enough that Trump was able to turn out the vote on Election Day in staggering numbers. But, that left the door wide open for Democratic voters to land several unanswered haymakers on Trump's leads across key battleground states. That is the reality.

Side note: mail-in ballots also allowed people to overcome voter suppression, in order to avoid driving hundreds of miles away to vote due to their local polling place being shut down.

The overwhelming point is, Trump lost. Trump lost definitively, and right now he is leading a circus to try to fight the inevitable.

In any other incident that ends up in a court of law, evidence will present itself, and then you make a complaint. President Trump is doing the polar opposite. He is making baseless claims, calling back to the excuses he got in early months prior, and now is scrambling to find evidence. Meanwhile, every Secretary of State across America has reported back that even with all the moving factors revolving around this election, it was a fair and free process.

Trump is trying to get key states flipped back into his column, in which there is no mathematical probability. The difference in Bush v. Gore was 537 votes. In this instance, Biden has leads anywhere in the thousands, tens of thousands, and even hundreds of thousands in battleground states. It is simply not possible for those votes to all be switched and swung in favor of the President. That is the reality.

We are nearly halfway through November. We find ourselves in a pandemic that is rapidly worsening by the day. We find ourselves as a country ready to fall off a cliff economically due to Congress' inability in passing a stimulus package when the prior one expired back on July 31.

Trump, clearly, is a proud man. But even pride cannot spare you from the inevitable. Instead of fighting for a lost cause, maybe it would better serve his pride to focus his efforts to take these last few weeks of his administration to address the real problems our country is facing.