I don't think the presidential election was stolen at all

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[–]fschmidt 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

What facts lead Trump to believe Democrats were going to steal the election from him?

The push for mail-in ballots.

But actually Trump didn't push the idea that the election would be stolen. He knew that there would be cheating but he didn't think it would be at the scale that actually happened, so he thought his margin of victory would be bigger than the amount of cheating. He was wrong.

[–]trident765 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Mail in ballots are not something new. I clearly remember my mother voting by absentee ballot in 2004. Why did no one question the integrity of mail in votes in that election?

[–]fschmidt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The rules changed. It varies by state but generally you had to request mail-in ballots instead of having them automatically mailed to you. Basically the scale of mail-in ballots was too small to steal an election, and this was changed. But of course the stealing of this election involved more than just mail-in ballots, they cheated in every imaginable way. But the push for more mail-in ballots was the clue for what was coming.