Greeson: The scoreboard is clear, and it's time for Donald to see it

Jay Greeson cropped
Jay Greeson cropped

For those of you who would love to see me head back to sports, well, sorry. No such luck.

But let's go ahead and use the most straightforward sports coverage skill and apply it to the biggest story in America.

It's called scoreboard watching. And simply put, it's over, Mr. President.

Both sides put up astonishing, recording-breaking numbers. And yes, if cheating occurred, i.e., fraudulent ballots were cast, I think we can all agree that needs to be exposed. Voter fraud is a serious allegation that deserves immediate and serious attention.

But the idea that fraudulent votes went just to the Democratic candidate - now president-elect Joe Biden - is nonsensical. How are the votes in a pro-Trump state fine and dandy, but the non-Trump votes fraudulent? And while we're here, if the fix was truly in, wouldn't the vote-fixers have looked beyond just the race for the White House? By every measure, Republicans fared very well, for the most part, in the elections for everything not related to the presidency.

So it's time to check the board, gang, and the final numbers are not exact, but the outcome is universally clear.

It's time to move along. Biden won. Trump lost.

Everything else is background noise at best. At worst, the allegations and innuendo from the president and his closest advisers undercut this country's democracy.

For his part, Trump has not commented publicly. Instead, he's tweeted all kinds of assertions (like he won the election) and apparently given his surrogates the go-ahead to sow mistrust in America's election process (side note: Curious that he didn't have a problem with the media declaring him a winner in 2016).

This is decidedly unpresidential behavior. It's not a Hail Mary, it's a Hell No, Mary. Or even a Fail Mary.

It's ridiculous at this point. If the president wants to cry foul on the outcome of his contest with Biden, how then can he explain the success of the Republican Party on down-ballot races? Is he suggesting those outcomes are wrong as well?

Gang, this is not a longshot, it's a no shot.

And the scoreboard is clear, which is one of the many ways that sports beats politics any day - the scoreboard never lies.

Contact Jay Greeson at jgreeson@timesfreepress.com.

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