The country song has a jaunty, folksy cadence and offers the false narrative that the Democrats stole the election. It has also gone viral on social media, turning the ditty by a 27-year-old singer-songwriter from Pensacola, Fla., into a protest anthem for President Trump’s supporters. “When I went to sleep Trump had the lead,” begins the song, which is called “Pallets Full of Ballots.” It continues: “They found pallets full of ballots at 3 a.m. All the way from Georgia to Michigan.”The song, which erroneously suggests that Democrats stuffed “pallets full of ballots” to try and swing the vote, underlines how President Trump’s unsubstantiated accusations of voter fraud are infiltrating popular culture. By Thursday, a video of the song had logged more than 650,000 views on YouTube, a week after it was posted. While YouTube affixed a label to the video of the song noting that “The AP has called the Presidential race for Joe Biden,” a Google search led to a copy of the song on another YouTube account where no such warning was visible.

Source: New York Times November 12, 2020 21:13 UTC