On a Thursday afternoon in June, five months after Inauguration Day, I asked Tucker Carlson whether Joe Biden was the legitimately elected President of the United States. This was halfway through a meandering phone conversationme in my apartment in New York, he at his home in Mainein which I spent most of the time trying to get a word in edgewise. Carlson paused. What do you mean by legitimately elected? Did Biden win the election? I asked again. He did win the election, Carlson said, his voice rising. Do I think the election was fair? Obviously it wasnt. He ticked off a bunch of reasons he believed this: media bias, tech censorship of right-wing outlets, a shortage of voter-ID laws. I asked whether any of this resulted in determinative changes in vote counts, knowing that Donald Trumps own Department of Homeland Security and Attorney General found no evidence of widespread fraud. Read the remainder of the article here. |