He is also creating an opportunity to identify and isolate traitors within.
If I recall local Repub official raised the issue because the results were way off from prev. elections, so they hand counted and discovered it.
Somebody was asking why POTUS was projecting weakness. This is one reason.
It's allowing all the fake MAGA people and camouflaged RINOS, and faux-objective media types to expose themselves because they think it's now safe to come out of the foxholes now.