100 million American people think the election was fraudulent....
Then 100 million American people are wrong. They can pound sand.
My (current) guess is that, at the root of this, is their inability to understand and/or accept the terribly obvious fact that a majority of Americans don't love Trump as they do.
The intensity of their adoration for him (of all freakin' people) simply overwhelms whatever critical thinking skills they may have. They just
can't see it.
It's part and parcel of being attached to a cult, which demands yuge dollops of self-delusion of the type that intentionally blinds the cultist to flaws and facts. They needed that self-delusion to look past the character flaws of this con artist he so blatantly put out there and dared them to not-see ("I could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue..."). And obediently enough they donned the blindfolds and began the chant: "La La La..."
Rump navigates his own dystopian path the same way. He believes his own bullshit. Hence we have an orange klown declaring "my father was born in a very wonderful place in Germany", then repeats rather than corrects himself, and his cultish minions can't correct him either because doing so would be disobedient. So it's either believe the Bronx is in New York where it is, or pull the blinders even tighter and chant "
La La La..." even louder. Because any acknowledgment of Reality tumbles that house of cards to the floor.
When the self-delusion muscles have been built up to that degree, it's not much of a reach to tell them "I don't care what the numbers say, I won by a lot" -- if the Cult Leader says two plus two equals five, then goddam it saying it equals four is a liburrul plot in cahoots with Hugo Chávez, Leon Trotsky, Francisco Franco and a player to be named later.
That's why they start with little things like where the Bronx is, what the electoral count was and how many spectators were at the inauguration. It gives the Delusionist-in-Chief a sense of how many sheep are in the flock and how far he can lead them. And most usefully it gets the idiots used to having their reality dick-tated in spite of what their senses tell them.