Regardless of who wins the Nov. 5 contest between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, a large swath of voters will undoubtedly claim that their preferred candidate was robbed. Democrats pretend that this phenomenon appeared out of nowhere when Trump refused to accept the 2020 election results after his narrow defeat to Joe Biden, but this couldn’t be further from the truth. 

Of course, if Trump loses, the Right will likely rinse and repeat its claims of a stolen election. Around half of Republicans believe the last election was stolen, and there is too much money to be made grifting online in the MAGAsphere to let an opportunity to enrage their followers to go to waste. Most of the Trump camp’s election-related lawsuits were thrown out of court, and aside from a few illegal aliens or dead Democrats voting around the margins, no large-scale instances of voter fraud were proven.