Yeah, I've gingerly skirted similar discussions with neighbors.
I think it is an example....a personification, really.....of the 2016 cliché about Trump Supporters being the under-informed demographic of the American citizenry.
That is not a dis on my wonderful neighbors.
But it is sad.
And, it is what it is.
More specific to yesterday's hearing I was impressed with how various witnesses.....all of them Trump's own people.....dismantled one 'election fraud' conspiracy after another. Barr's under-oath testimony with his grasp of the Detroit precincts was particularly credible and impressive. Clearly, he had gotten into the weeds of these investigations.
And I was particularly interested in Republican elections expert and lawyer Benjamin Ginsberg's under-oath testimony. The guy knows elections and election law. And he gave credible testimony. Articulate and detailed. And he wasn't afraid to talk metrics and numbers at the hearing. Which made him even more credible.
I thought the fired Fox guy who made the call (the correct call, by the way...but got fired by Murdoch for it, anyway)...who made the early call on Arizona, he was very believable.
Clearly, one could see the satisfaction and the triumphalism he still owns over 'beating out the competition' with the call. He made the call based on his confidence in his data modeling. He beat ABC, CBS, NBC, etc. with that call. They all eventually caught up with Fox's call but from the competitive nature of American business...he won.
But got fired for it. Such is life.
But the guy came across as knowledgeable, competent, and credible.