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Several American commentators believe that Trump can benefit by claiming that Biden and the Democrats stole the election. Some also claim that it is a completely conscious strategy.

The Stolen Election: A Helpful Conspiracy Theory:

Donald Trump began his political career when Barack Obama was ruling the United States. He stated early in the election campaign that Obama was not born in the United States. You have to be that to become president. (For the record: Obama was born in the United States, in Hawaii.)

This conspiracy theory had been spreading online for some time, and those who believed in it became Trump’s first base of voters. Since then, his following has grown exponentially.

71 million Americans, or 47.6 percent of voters, voted for Trump last week.

They did so despite the fact that in the election campaign he has made undocumented accusations that Joe Biden is a criminal and that he and the Democrats had planned an electoral fraud with votes by mail.

Anne Appelbaum in The Atlantic magazine writes that nearly a third of Americans doubted that Obama was born in the United States when he was president. They had so little confidence in American democracy that they were willing to believe that the entire Obama presidency was a conspiracy.

So it doesn’t make sense for Trump to admit that he has lost this year’s election.

He can benefit from undermining confidence in American democracy as much as possible among his supporters, because it has been at the core of his political project throughout, Appelbaum believes.

Trump can, as she and other commentators see it, pretend he didn’t lose the election. You can continue to live in an alternate reality, a reality that you share with many of your most ardent followers.

Support in own party

– Trump is without a doubt the most powerful voice in our party. He will also have a great influence in the future, Mitt Romney told NBC News on Sunday.

The Utah senator, who was a presidential candidate in 2012, has been one of the few critics Trump has had in the Senate. It is the most powerful chamber of Congress.

He is now one of the few Republicans to congratulate Joe Biden on his election victory. He believes that Trump should do the same.

But why have so few Republicans congratulated Biden?

Romney points out part of the reason himself:

– The Republican Party is still Trump’s party. He was closer to winning the election than many had thought, and he can still assure Republicans a narrow majority in the Senate. He is also much more popular than most of his party colleagues with voters, he told NBC News.

– Republican candidates didn’t suffer big losses on Tuesday, and that was because of Trump. Trump himself wasn’t crushed either, Missouri Senator Roy Blunt tells ABC News.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell openly says he believes Trump has every right to investigate whether last week’s election was conducted properly.

Jeff Flake, who was McConnell’s party colleague in the Senate but joined forces with Trump several years ago, believes his party colleagues don’t love Trump, but are afraid of him.

“They know that there is no long-term future in Trumpism, but at the same time they fear Trump because he has so many supporters that he can hurt them,” Flake told the Washington Post.

The 2020 U.S. elections are not over

Although Joe Biden has been declared the winner, the US election campaign is not over.

We still don’t know who will get the majority in the Senate. That election won’t be decided until January.

In Georgia, it is so even between Biden and Trump that there is a tally.

And on top of that, we don’t know who the two state senators will be.

Because more than two candidates ran in each of these Senate elections, there will be a second round of elections on January 5.

It may not be tactical for Republicans to come to terms with Trump before those elections, writes the Washington Post.

Several thousand Trump supporters have demonstrated in Georgia in recent days, claiming the election has been stolen.

Some of those who believe in conspiracy theories in that state also won very directly in the elections. Marjorie Taylor Greene was elected to Congress on the Republican side.

She supports the cult Internet movement QAnon, which emerged in 2017. They claim that for decades they have had a secret network of powerful people in the US state apparatus who may be linked to an elite committed to Satanism and pedophilia. Greene and others have viewed President Trump as something of an ally.

Is Trump starting his own television channel?

Trump will spend the next few weeks in trials against the holding of elections in Pennsylvania, Georgia and several other states.

According to the Axios news sites, he is also planning public meetings where he will promote these demands. They also write that it will display the obituaries of deceased voters that it believes voted in last week’s presidential election.

Several lawyers speaking to the US media, also on the Republican side, doubt that Trump will win with any of the lawsuits. They believe this strategy could hurt both Trump and the Republican Party.

However, if Trump wants to cultivate the history of the 2020 election as the biggest conspiracy against him, the story is different, says Anne Appelbaum in The Atlantic.

Trump’s loss could increase his popularity with supporters, she believes. They will continue to buy Trump red caps and flags and may become the primary audience for Trump’s own television channel, he writes.

A channel could become a competitor to Fox News if that channel turns against the president, as it did to a greater extent than before when Joe Biden was declared the winner of the presidential election on Saturday.

Donald Trump has been good at building brands long before he became president.

Appelbaum believes he will continue to hunt for headlines long after he has moved out of the White House.