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Republicans are planning to undermine the results of the US election against Harris through misinformation about <a href="https://www.world-today-news.com/trump-clarifies-controversial-statements-in-which-he-asked-to-vote-twice/" title="Trump clarifies controversial statements in which he asked to vote twice”>postal voting and ignoring the will of voters.
Washington DC – Ex-US President Donald Trump and the republican have been working on the result for weeks US election Not having to accept should be Vice President Kamala Harris of the Democrats win. The strategies range from lying about the alleged “stolen election” against the US president Joe Biden 2020, from fake news about postal voting to plans to completely ignore the will of voters, the US broadcaster reported CNN in an overview of the debates on the US right on Friday (November 1st). Right-wing extremist militias are already calling for lynchings.
Trump already incited his supporters on January 6, 2021 to prevent his election defeat. © Ian Maule / AFP/picture alliance/dpa/Zuma Press | Essdras M. Suarez
“Pursue them, now!” – Trump incites against Democrats in the swing state of Pennsylvania ahead of the US election
The Democrats would “cheat” in the potentially decisive state of Pennsylvania, Trump recently wrote in his Medium Truth Social. “Pursue them, now!” the ex-president continued. This is “more of the familiar,” said Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, to the station. He rejected Trump’s accusations. The Republicans claimed, among other things, that the state’s Democratic government was manipulating postal votes and deliberately excluding Trump voters. According to the news agency Reuters There was no credible evidence of manipulation of the US election in Pennsylvania on Thursday evening (October 31st).
US election 2020: Trump tried to manipulate the results in Georgia
These accusations are actually well known. They are Trump’s central reason for not recognizing his defeat in the 2020 US election against incumbent US President Joe Biden to this day. In 2020 and 2021, Trump first tried to convince the responsible Interior Secretary of the state of Georgia to “find” enough votes for his victory. He has now been charged with this. When this attempt failed, Trump’s then-lawyer Rudy Giuliani tried to prove in various courts that Trump had won the election. He failed, according to the daily newspaper Washington Postfor lack of evidence, every single time.
Trump’s Republicans are suing the swing state of Pennsylvania against the conduct of the US election
US election 2020: The lie of the “stolen election” and the six deaths on January 6th
After the defeat against Biden in 2020, the Republicans around Trump quickly spun the conspiracy narrative of the “stolen election”, which is now an integral part of the worldview of the radical to militant right in the USA. This narrative also drove the more than 2,000 Trump supporters, some of them militant, who stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 to demand the confirmation of the US election results US-Kongress to prevent. Six people died in the riots, which are considered the largest attack on US democracy in recent memory.
If Trump loses: “Proud Boys” channels call for lynchings after the US election
Right-wing Republicans want to ignore the will of voters in swing states after the US election
Aside from the violent coup, there are also those on the US right who are considering a coup using apparently legal means. The chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, Andy Harris, recently emphasized that it “makes a lot of sense.” Swing State North Carolina not to wait for the election results from the areas affected by Hurricane Helene, but to decide by parliamentary resolution who will receive the state’s votes in the Electoral College. The House Freedom Caucus is a group of openly right-wing Republicans in the House of Representatives that includes about a fifth of the caucus.
Danger for the next US election: ultra-right “Project 2025”
The ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation has already presented a program for a possible second Trump administration after the US election with the hundreds of pages long “Project 2025”. The aim is to concentrate as much power as possible in the hands of the president in order to implement an agenda that is hostile to women and minorities. The liberal US think tank reported that the plans would also put democratic elections at risk Brennan Center. There are express plans to abolish government support in securing polling stations in future elections or to prosecute Democrats for allegedly influencing postal voting in Biden’s election.
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Polls on the US election: Trump and Harris have a tight race in swing states
The polls for the US election are extremely close. Nationally, Harris and Trump are roughly tied at 49 and 48 percent respectively. However, the election is decided by a majority in the Electoral College, in which the result of the US election is decided by seven contested states, so-called swing states. In Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada and Pennsylvania, Trump and Harris are less than a percentage point apart. Trump narrowly leads in North Carolina, Georgia and Arizona. With the exception of Nevada, every swing state has enough Electoral College votes to decide the election. (kb)
