Audrey Trujillo (photo, left), the GOP’s nominee for New Mexico’s secretary of state, contends Trump won that state in 2020.
“Somebody asked me, How do you know Trump won New Mexico? and I’m like, We didn’t see Biden signs anywhere,” she said. “We saw Trump signs. We saw huge convoys. We had so many people that were so excited to see Trump continue in his presidency.”
This shares a commonality with most Republican conspiracy theories about the 2020 election: It depends on some type of indirect evidence, in this case yard signs and truck rallies, to refute the actual vote count.
(Another example, from another state: A 17-year-old Pennsylvania high school student argues “it’s very unlikely that 80 million people could look at Joe Biden and look at the way he speaks, look at how he acts when he’s asked a tough question,” and vote for him. To this kid, “if you look at it critically, it doesn’t add up.” See that story here.)
The official vote count in New Mexico was Biden 501,614 (54.3%), Trump 401,894 (43.5%). That shouldn’t be a surprise; nearly 60% of the state’s population is either Hispanic or Native American, and Trump’s base is white voters.
Who do you believe? The gal who counted yard signs, a kid with undeveloped thinking skills who can’t imagine adults voting against Trump, or the election workers who counted the votes?
They can say all they want about dead votes, illegals voting, and whatnot, but the election deniers haven’t proved any of that. Every ballot was cast by a registered voter who had to present an ID to vote. There’s a process for counting votes that’s, let’s just say, more accurate than taking a census of yard signs or pickup trucks with blaring horns.
Where’s the common sense? More to the point, is this someone New Mexico voters want managing their elections to? It doesn’t look like it; Trujillo is getting clobbered in polling. This is the gal whose campaign was going to raffle off a gun until they were told that’s illegal in New Mexico (see that story here). If present trends hold, she’s going to lose by double digits. She’ll probably claim that election was rigged, too. Because yard signs and truck horns prove it was.
Another commonality among dumb people is they don’t realize they’re dumb.