Hey, Decision Desk HQ Took a Million Votes Away From Donald Trump

All through the early morning hours on Wednesday, Nov. 6, Trump supporters were wondering darkly if it would be the 2020 election all over again: a water main would break somewhere, and Donald Trump’s solid lead would suddenly vanish with the arrival of trucks full of fake Kamala Harris ballots. That didn’t end up happening, but that doesn’t mean that electoral shenanigans and just plain inexplicable incidents are a thing of the past. Decision Desk HQ proved that on Friday afternoon by taking a million votes away from Donald Trump’s popular vote total.

Yes, of course, ballots are still being counted out there. That’s fine, if more than a little suspicious three days after the election. But the ongoing counts would mean that each candidate’s numbers would go up, not down. A candidate’s vote total might decrease if a recount uncovered a number of fraudulent or ineligible ballots, but neither Decision Desk HQ nor anyone else has any news of any recount or anything else that would account for their subtraction of votes from President Trump’s total.

Yet it’s unmistakable. Early Friday afternoon, I wrote that “Donald Trump’s popular vote total stood at 74,269,316”; that link goes to Decision Desk HQ’s presidential vote count. I added naively: “By the time you see this article and click on that link, however, that total is certain to be higher.” Not for one second did it occur to me that someone might click on that link to Decision Desk HQ and find Trump’s popular vote total to be lower, but as of this writing on Friday afternoon, a million more phantoms have been added to the eleven million who voted for Old Joe Biden in 2020 but not for Kamala Harris in 2024: Trump’s popular vote total now stands at 73,451,583.

By the time you read this those totals will be different — most likely higher, but given what happened with the Trump totals, possibly lower. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the presence of mind to get screenshots of Trump’s 74 million total, as I didn’t suspect it would decrease. But the odd change did not go unnoticed.

At 11:58AM ET on Friday, Grace Chong, the CFO and COO of Bannon’s War Room, posted happily on X: “President Trump passed 74 million!” At high noon, another poster added: “The current count is 74,264,259.” But then at 3:34PM, the same X user posted: “There is something nefarious going on. The number I provided to you earlier has gone done for President Trump, and keeps increasing for Kamala Harris. I pulled that number off of Decision Desk HQ’s website, but look at this latest number now.” It was 73,445,865 at that point.

What gives, Decision Desk? Are we not owed at least some semblance of an explanation for this? And is it going to continue until it turns out that Kamala Harris has won the popular vote after all? Trump won 74 million votes in 2020, and that’s why many people were watching when his popular vote count approached the same total in this election. Is there some effort afoot to ensure that he is not listed as getting as many or more votes in 2024 as he did in 2020? Is there some attempt being made to take away his popular vote majority over Harris?

Maybe nothing like that is going on. there is some perfectly innocent and reasonable explanation for this, but if there is, Decision Desk HQ should publish it immediately. I wrote to them and asked for comment but they have not answered as of yet, and it doesn’t look as if they are going to do so at all. This is not only inviting speculation as to their accuracy and honesty, but more mistrust of the entire electoral process in the United States.

Many patriots breathed a sigh of relief on Wednesday morning when Trump was declared the winner and made his victory speech, not just because they supported him and didn’t want to see this country degenerate even more into a Marxist hellhole, but also because his victory restored their faith in the American political process. Those who noted all the outrageously questionable elements of the 2020 election and were deplatformed and vilified for doing so were grimly resigned to Kamala Harris being installed as president, and her own campaign manager even used that word.

When that didn’t happen, America dodged a bullet as unmistakably as Donald Trump did on that fateful day when he turned his head unexpectedly, and in doing so, avoided being murdered. We can hope that if he has reasonable freedom to act as president, he will institute reforms that make large-scale election fraud impossible.

In the meantime, Decision Desk HQ needs to clean up its act. People trust it. Should they?