Watch mainstream media news reports about claims the 2020 election was stolen and you'll first be greeted with an on-screen banner that says such claims are "false," "bogus," or "the Big Lie."

Fraud Charges: Where There's Smoke There's Fire?

But a recent Rasmussen poll shows almost one in three American voters (32%) now think the election was stolen.  If Joe Biden did win fair and square, it was one of the strangest and most improbable victories in presidential election history, one that went opposite to trusted election metrics that go back decades. 

There's a saying that "Where's there's smoke, there's fire."  And when it comes to claims that something was seriously amiss with the 2020 election results, there certainly seems to be a lot of smoke.

For starters, thousands of sworn affidavits alleging election fraud or irregularities, given under penalty of perjury. 

New Mexico State University Law professor David Clements, a former assistant district attorney on the southern border, says the evidence of wrongdoing in the 2020 elections is far stronger than the drug cases he prosecuted.

"I've never had a case with this much evidence, with this degree of quality to the evidence in my entire career," Clements said.