Just what the title says.
How would that impact the current administration...the House...the Senate...all the legislation and executive orders?
What about all the interactions not-President Biden has had with international powers?
Run through the ramifications...legally, politically, socially...how bad would things get?
So, if a few thousand votes in several key states were manipulated, leading to a Biden electoral victory, and the media as far to the left as CNN actually admitted this happened...
I imagine first of all there's a subset of Democrats who fall into camps like "we still won the popular vote" and "Trump legitimately was that bad so good on the riggers." I don't think this would be a majority opinion, but I think it'd be one you hear a lot due to signal boosting of the craziest shit people say. I'd expect a ton of "whataboutism" to come up involving Democratic talking points involving Republican voter suppression and how bad the electoral college is that is enough to satisfy most hardcore Democrats.
As generally mentioned a fraudulent election has no real recourse at the moment, so Biden stays in power, especially if he's not actually proved responsible for any campaign. Worst case politically for Democrats is likely some round of impeachment proceedings. I imagine the core Democratic Party would be
eager to hang the culprits out to dry as scapegoats. No one in the Democratic Party is irreplaceable right now. I think people who learned about the scheme
before the election would be much more likely to keep it quiet, but with Democratic executive authority pretty much inviolate until the next election I think there would be no loyalty what so ever to the perpetrators.
Honestly the scenario is pretty damn weird. The polling data expected a much bigger Democratic victory than we got. I would expect a fraudulant election to match that a lot more closely. Having the power to rig the election and make a controversial, squeaked by victory suggests to me that it would've been a few rogue agents in key positions rather than some kind of master conspiracy that conservatives seem to think exists.
My hot take is that not a lot changes. The level of fear and distrust on both sides right now makes me think that very few Democrats would change their votes based on proven fraud by "their" side. If it turned out a hundred thousand of Trump's votes were faked and he lost the election anyway I don't think that'd change many Republicans to voting for Democrats. With current and thin margins of victory the small group that does change their votes might be very influential, but I don't think the electoral landscape changes for more than one Republican blowout at most.
Socially I think the media and elections lose a lot of credibility, but I don't think it's an order of magnitude worse than the 2000 election. Both parties have survived scandals I think are comparable to this even if this would be somewhat larger. Monica Lewinsky and Iran-Contra seem like easy points for "neither party is broken just because their leaders did immoral and illegal shit" and worst case is something like the current DNC gets dissolved and another set of people with "D" next to their names takes over with the same positions and support base.
I'd tentatively expect the Bernie Sanders crowd to gain the most from this. They're distanced from the core of the DNC, would be able to condemn the fraud without obvious hypocrisy, and could likely make a credible claim that they're also the victims of fraud as who knows what primary elections got warped if the national election was stolen. I think a lot of young Democrats would move further to the left and away from the center in this situation, as going full Republican is basically impossible on a social level but screaming bloody murder about the centrist Democrats is already quite popular.
I also think I'm making an optimistic case for Republican gains in this scenario, which I doubt many people here will like hearing. The timeline where CNN admits the election was stolen seems like it'd be a pretty narrow one, as most conspiracy theories involving the election assume the media to the left of Fox (at best) is complicit to some degree. The country actually
agreeing the election was stolen, instead of a massive denial campaign inside the Democrats, is a fairly optimistic version of how a stolen election could have gone down and the integrity of the media.