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As it became clear that Biden won the election, Trump refused to concede and stepped up his baseless allegations of voter fraud. What's particularly noteworthy, however, is where Trump has claimed (without any evidence) that there was voter fraud.

These are all places were Trump did slightly better than he did in 2016. Yes, he was still roundly defeated but he actually improved on his margins from 2016 in these cities. Where Trump lost ground was in the suburbs outside the cities. So why claim this is where the fraud was?

The short answer is that it was pure unadulterated racism. Trump used these cities as dog whistles. Every time he brought up imaginary voter fraud the subtext was "Black people voting is inherently illegitimate." That's a view shared by much of the GOP.

By now it's clear that these efforts failed. All the votes were counted and Joe Biden, not Donald Trump, will be President of the United States come January 20, 2020. No amount of complaining or tweeting by Trump will change that. But that's only the first half of the story...

Trump & GOP's efforts to subvert democracy and overturn the results of the election failed but they're not letting their efforts go to waste. After making completely baseless allegations of voter fraud, Republicans began pointing out that faith in the election was pretty low.