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So says Trump.

Trump’s argument of electoral inevitability adds an ally: God

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Trump wants to be president, yes, but he wants people to view him as victorious and popular perhaps just as much. This year, a lot of his rhetoric about voting hinges on this idea, that he is the true choice of the people and deeply popular — and, therefore, that any loss would necessarily be a function not of vote-counting but vote manipulation.

“Our primary focus is not to get out the vote,” he said. “It’s to make sure they don’t cheat, because we have all the votes you need.”

Says the dope who never won the popular vote.

“Is there a reason you think you were spared?” McGraw asked.

“I mean, the only thing I can think is that God loves our country,” Trump replied. “And he thinks we’re going to bring our country back. He wants to bring it back.”

“You believe God’s hand was in this that day?” McGraw asked a bit later in the discussion.

“I believe so, yeah, I do,” Trump replied.

“And you talk about the country; you believe you have more to do,” McGraw followed up. “You weren’t done. You were spared for a reason.”

“Well,” Trump said, “God believes that.”

But his explicit pronouncement that God believes Trump needed to live to “bring our country back”? This is an unusual invocation of divine intent.

(It is also one that, for an outside observer, raises a correlated question: Well, why did firefighter Corey Comperatore, struck by one of the bullets, have to die? This was unaddressed by McGraw or Trump.)

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