When Fox News’ audience began to shrink immediately after Fox News in 2020 called Arizona for Biden when only 3% of the ballots had been tabulated, the alerted brass at Fox News apparently were at first not worried as they foolishly continued denying that the election was apparently rigged, but about two weeks after the election, the Fox brass had become quite panicked so began reporting the assertions of Trump’s surrogates about how the election was rigged. Tens of thousands of independent investigators, affidavit filers, and documentary makers went to work when they saw the obvious evidence of rigging on election night and the morning following; that’s grassroots not astroturf, no need for Trump to have pointed out the obvious yet for good reason he did and still does.