[Hoot Gibson]

I also am well-versed in statistics and sampling theory. And there is one age-old maxim you should keep in mind. ‘Lies, damn lies and statistics.’ In other words, you can usually manipulate statistics to fit the narrative you want to push across. Like your ridiculous assertion earlier about the “great inroads” Trump made with black voters. Without context, someone might think that was quite the accomplishment. But as I pointed out to you, if those same gains are made in every succeeding presidential election, Republicans will get a majority of the black vote—in the 2060 election. Lies, damn lies and statistics.

There was so much mail-in ballot fraud in the predominantly black areas of Philadelphia, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Atlanta, I would not put much faith in any stat that shows racist Joe Biden doing as well as previous Democrat candidates among blacks. If you understand statistics, then you can calculate the odds of Biden getting 97 to 100 percent of random batches of mail-in ballots of 100,000 or more. Those were not naturally occurring events.

As I pointed out to you, your extrapolation of Trump's inroads into the black vote assume linear growth. That is not necessarily a valid assumption. I believe that blacks, particularly middle class blacks who have done very well the past four years, are beginning to realize that they don't have much to show for their blind allegiance to the Democrat Party for the past six decades. Republicans should build on that momentum but they need to continue to appeal to black voters the way that Trump has, not pander to them the way that Democrats have done. Trump's "What do you have to lose?" argument was very effective.