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The United States is tense awaiting the final outcome of the 2020 elections, despite the premature statement of President Donald Trump: “We won this election.” Supporters of Trump and Joe Biden told the Daily Maverick they were eagerly awaiting the final count.
Breaking: On Wednesday night South African time, CNN screened Wisconsin for Joe Biden. Coupled with an almost certain victory in Arizona and probable victories in Nevada and Michigan, Biden seems almost certain that he will become the 46th president of the United States.
While the counting continues behind the scenes at what can only be a frantic pace, for all mail-in ballots to be counted and to determine exactly who won the 2020 presidential election, America is a nation that waits.
There has been a massive outcry around Donald Trump telling the American public and the world that he had won. As the contest tightened and the night progressed, with the vote count getting closer and closer and the leading candidate alternating between blue and red, a smiling Joe Biden told his supporters: “We feel good about where we are.” .
Biden reminded people that it had always been clear until November 3, due to the large number of early voters and absentee ballots by mail, that it was going to take a while for all the votes to be counted. “We will have to be patient … and it won’t be over until every vote is counted, every ballot is counted.”
A stern-looking Trump, speaking from the East Room of the White House, said: “Millions and millions of people voted for us tonight and a very sad group of people is trying to deprive that group of people and we are not going to do it. tolerate. . This is a fraud in the American country, we were preparing to win these elections; frankly, we won this election. “
While some media and political experts criticized Trump for “declaring victory”, Dr. Rusty Brooks of the Carl Vinson Institute of Government said: “It was not a premature declaration … it was a clear ‘strategy’ to continue seeding mistrust and discord among theirs. sympathizers about the legitimacy of the vote “.
Brooks said Daily maverick: “He will not go quietly into the night… he and his legal team will dispute this to the end. That is what generates the potential for violence … he does NOT accept the result. “
First-time voter Emma DeLaRosa, an 18-year-old Hispanic, voted for Biden. She says that she is still seeing the results through multiple sources on her computer and phone.
“It is good to see that Biden has the upper hand at the moment, but it is quite disturbing to see the reactions that Trump has had, like last night when he tried to claim a false victory and how he is ignoring the vote by mail; it’s a worrying thing to see because you don’t know what it can do or what it can say.
DeLaRosa adds that she and her friends are concerned about what might happen.
“Some of my friends have talked about how this could lead to violence and it’s really scary to watch: living here in Boston [Massachusetts] You can see that they are starting to clog up the stores in preparation for the violence and it’s really scary to watch, it’s a very disturbing and dystopian feeling. “
Avid Trump supporter and Canteen Member Mike Parker was born, raised, and still lives in Florida. A retired news professional and U.S. Army veteran, he’s watching the results closely. Early on Wednesday November 4 he said Daily maverick that as I watched the results roll in and Biden take the lead, “I was going into a slump until we got control of the Senate.”
How do you feel when Trump says he won before all the votes were counted?
“Some of the mainstream media is going crazy over him saying that, but I have no problem with that at all, I mean, this is literally a battle for the soul of our country.”
Parker says he lied to pollsters. “I told them I was a staunch Biden supporter … and I guess a lot of other people did the same.”
He adds that Trump supporters “basically just don’t trust the pollsters … I’ve done two polls, one during the primaries and … a few weeks ago.”
Parker says the reason for lying to pollsters means that, “if the general population believed that Biden had a significant advantage, there would be less urgency for them to go out and vote. So you could say that it was an indirect attempt to suppress voters. “
Brooks, who has worked with governments around the world, said: “No one has won yet” and that Trump is planning “a protracted legal fight that aims to delegitimize all the institutions on which the government relies.”
It may not yet be clear who won, but according to Parker, there is an advantage: “I am happy that it is over as long as it is over, at least I will stop getting text messages and robocalls,” the fundraising appeals. “. DM
An Wentzel is Night Editor, Specialist Reporter for the Daily Maverick. She went to the United States to visit her family when the pandemic struck and is currently abandoned in the land of the ‘free’.
