Trump still obsessed with the 2020 election

Donald Trump cannot and will not let go of his belief that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him, that it was somehow totally fraudulent and that, as he claimed in his first speech for nearly three months, huge numbers of dead people voted for Biden. The last accusation is the weirdest. It's one thing for a voting slip to be sent to a dead person but quite another for the dead person to rise up and put his or her tick in the box. But even if someone, alive, did the voting on behalf of the dead relative, why would that necessarily favour Biden rather than Trump? It is true that a large number of dead people or non-Americans living in other countries but who had once been a US taxayer, received pandemic stimulus cheques both under the Trump and Biden administrations. But even if dead people were given voting slips for the 2020 election, we're not talking millions of people, enough in other words to make a difference in the final ballot on voting day. So the dead people line is a side issue and was probably just made up by Trump. He didn't say he or the FBI had proof of dead people voting. Trump still has a huge following, proven by the adoring crowd who turned up in North Carolina for his first speech since February. OK he didn't start off with the fraudulent election stuff but his supporters knew it was coming and when it did, about an hour into his address, they went wild. They want to believe it too. The speech was not one of his greatest. It reminded everyone both in the convention hall and outside in the rest of the US that the former president is now becoming more and more bitter and therefore less and less effective as someone to consider for future office. He is still playing with the idea of standing for president again in 2024 but the thought of losing will surely change his mind. Meanwhile a dozen or so possible Republican candidates are already being lined up by the media. They include Mike Pence, no longer a committed Trumpite, who is almost definitely going to have a go. He of all potential candidates will be desperate for his old boss to slide off into retirement but he will never get Trump's support. There are still far right militia types who blame Pence for Trump's political downfall, so Pence has a hard road ahead of him if he wants to be president. If Trump does decide to stand, of course, then all bets are off and it will be Pence sliding into retirement.