Will Trump declare himself the election winner early?
According to media reports, US President Donald Trump speculated about himself on election night to be declared the winner if he is temporarily ahead in the counting. The news website Axios quoted unnamed sources on Sunday as saying that the president had spoken to confidants about it. The broadcaster CNN reported something similar, citing Trump advisors.
The background is that because of the corona pandemic a Record number of Americans voting by mail votes. According to surveys, supporters of the Democrat Joe Biden in particular want to take advantage of this opportunity. The problem is that, in all likelihood, absentee votes in some of the contested swing states counted days after the election will. Among other things, this is probably in Pennsylvania the case, a state that could make the difference. Here may only on election day start counting.
It is therefore possible that Trump will be on Wednesday night is temporarily ahead, but its lead disappears again in the following days. That would be a Phase of uncertainty that the Democrats fear the incumbent could take advantage of.
538 electoral votes there is a win that needs the winner at least 270 of it to be elected president. In almost all states the “winner takes all” rule applies: In the end, the candidate who is ahead in the state concerned gets all the votes.
At an election campaign event in Dubuque, Iowa – one of five on Sunday – the president again called for a The election result must be available on Wednesday night. “It has always been like this, and that’s how it should be.” It is “terrible if we can’t get an election result on election night”.
Trump has been claiming postal voting for months without any evidence prone to fraud be and the Democrats so the choice “steal” wanted to. In several states, Republicans are taking legal action against this.
His Campaign Advisor Jason Miller reinforced this allegation on Sunday. On the ABC channel, he said: “We believe that we will have more than 290 voters on election night.” Trump will re-elected. It doesn’t matter what the Democrats tried with “lawsuits or any other nonsense”.
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