Opinion

Why I Still Doubt the 2020 Election

Sixty years of political experience have taught me that secular leftists, unlike most traditional conservatives and liberals, often don’t play by the rules.

Rob Natelson

11/20/2023|Updated: 11/27/2023

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Commentary

When I said in a TV interview that I didn’t know who won the 2020 presidential election, I was expressing a view similar to that held by a very large cohort of Americans. That didn’t stop two left-leaning news websites from targeting me last year with investigative stories. Why? Perhaps they were trying to get me hauled up before the House of Representatives Jan. 6 committee.

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Rob Natelson

Author

Robert G. Natelson, a former constitutional law professor who is senior fellow in constitutional jurisprudence at the Independence Institute in Denver, authored “The Original Constitution” (4th ed., 2025). He is a contributor to The Heritage Foundation’s “Heritage Guide to the Constitution.” He also researched and wrote the scholarly article “Virgil and the Constitution,” whose publication is pending in Regent University Law Review.

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