One can argue about whether it's truly extraneous information, but the "despite" is absolutely the wrong connective. The people who think the election was frau

One can argue about whether it's truly extraneous information, but the "despite" is absolutely the wrong connective. The people who think the election was fraudulent do so because of Trump's actions, not despite of them. Those people's thinking is horribly flawed, of course, but it's still better to represent it accurately.